Teddy Riley & Babyface teaming up for Bobby Brown biopic theme

Songwriting rivals Teddy Riley and Kenneth ‘babyface’ Edmonds have teamed up to work on a new song for an upcoming Bobby Brown biopic.
The two hitmakers both penned songs for Brown during his 1990s heyday and now they’ve been invited to work on a theme for the upcoming TV movie, which will detail the My Prerogative singer’s life and career.
“We’ve already started looking at some tracks he’s (Riley) got,” Babyface tells Billboard. “It feels like it’s going to be natural. We both kind of know what we do, so there’s not really much figuring out to do, that’s the cool thing about it.”
And there’s no bad blood in the studio.
“I guess back in the day we were kind of like polite rivals,” Babyface recalls. “We were all going against each other. Everybody was trying to stay on top of the charts and be the number one team. You had Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and me and L.A. (Reid) and Teddy… I was definitely inspired by Teddy.
“So it’s nice at this point in our lives for us both to still be in music and doing music and be able to work together and respect each other and really love what each other does and be able to have fun with it.”
Babyface reveals that the song he and Riley come up with will be sung by Brown himself, revealing the star might appear as himself in the TV film: “That’s still up in the air,” he says. “He’s getting in really good shape and he lost a lot of weight and he’s on a road to getting it good, getting it right again.”
The new film is based on Brown’s 2013 memoir Every Little Step.