There’s good news! After #AuntieTwitter and #BlackTwitter were upset that the Instagram Live battle between Babyface and Teddy Riley was postponed—this time due to technical difficulties—it’s now been rescheduled.
The battle will now happen on Monday at 8 p.m. ET, according to Riley’s Instagram account.
Despite both iconic producers being ready to rip their hits on Saturday night, and with more than 400,000 watching along, an echo that ruined the entire experience just.wouldn’t.stop.
Many fans blamed Riley’s connection since he was using a mic. And after 30 minutes of Riley’s team trying to troubleshoot, Babyface decided to call the whole thing off in a video shared to Instagram.
“I think that it’s only right that we postpone this thing until another time when there aren’t any technical difficulties, and everybody can hear the music the way it needs to be heard,” he said in the camera, visibly disappointed.
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Thank you everyone for being there for us
A post shared by Kenny Edmonds (@babyface) on Apr 18, 2020 at 7:28pm PDT
Riley would later go on to echo his sentiments, apologizing for the sound issues.
“It’s just like a boxing match [when] something goes wrong, we have to do it again,” he said to the camera in his own video on Instagram. “Please forgive us. We will be back.”
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A post shared by Teddy Riley (@teddyriley1) on Apr 18, 2020 at 9:00pm PDT
This is the second time the battle, which was announced on Babyface’s birthday, was pushed back. Riley announced two weeks ago that they had to push back their battle, organized by Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, because Face was sick. The producer would later confirm that he along with his family had been diagnosed with COVID-19.
And while the botched competition didn’t give us the tunes we were craving, it did give us some laughs. The memes inspired from the battle go unmatched. Leave it to Black Twitter to make lemonade out of lemons.
Here are the best tweets from the internet streets to hold us over until the two announce a new date.
Teddy’s hypeman dancing like what we all thought 2020 would be like 
Teddy vs Babyface pic.twitter.com/jfbauDjPjc
— SuzieBeChoosy (@MissNoelSzn) April 19, 2020
#TeddyRileyVsBabyface 500k people: We can’t hear you, Teddy!Teddy Riley: pic.twitter.com/PJriaaS75Q
— Kevin Powell (@theKPexperience) April 19, 2020
Teddy Riley camp troubleshooting pic.twitter.com/RfOqdkpi36
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SC/IG: Hail_Zel (@Hail_Zel) April 19, 2020
Babyface when Teddy Riley calls to set a new date be like: pic.twitter.com/BlEgfa9CQ0
— Alejandro Guerra (@Cinephile420) April 19, 2020
Teddy Riley’s social media manager. pic.twitter.com/E0Md5lMe1K
— TyreeBP (@TyreeBP) April 19, 2020
Babyface as soon as he got off the live: pic.twitter.com/yTVFjyprEF
— Jeremy Moon 
(@jeffuhz) April 19, 2020
Also kids we all know the digital era rules and these jokes shall fly but please don’t let over production and audio issues make you think Teddy Riley is a joke. One of the greatest architects of music to ever touch this planet……now back to the memes……
— Charlamagne Tha God (@cthagod) April 19, 2020
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