To see Teezo is to see the promise of music that brings communities together like the fantastical promise of integration. He’s more of a borrower of different popular sounds. It is tempting to call Teezo an eccentric, but that is a dubious description for a kid who grew up listening to Paul Wall, Slim Thug, pop punk acts, and Prince. I’m extending my hand and saying, ‘Nice to meet you, I am Teezo Touchdown.’” Like Nelly, Destiny's Child, and 50 Cent.
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So, one thing I learned was how to be collaborative, and I studied other debut albums. I see myself as self-deprecating and self-sabotaging sometimes. “There were a bunch of different versions. “I had been working on this record all the way up to now,” he explains. After his appearance on “Run It Up” on Tyler, the Creator’s 2021 acclaimed album, Call Me If You Get Lost, the industry has been itching to hear what Teezo’s own project would sound like.
This has been a long time coming for Teezo and his fans. He’s in town for New York Fashion Week (popping up front row at shows like Eckhaus Latta) and the celebration of his debut album, How Do You Sleep at Night?, released on September 8 through RCA Records. “They were right when they said we were gonna put Drake on every hook,” he says cheekily. Before starting the interview, he looked at the framed Cash Money Records poster on the wall and started singing “Money to Blow,” a classic for a young millennial. We’re at Republic Studios in Manhattan, and he he’s disarmingly down to earth, signature metal nails in his braids and all. While his music isn’t at what could be its greatest point-the production on songs like “Impossible” veers too closely to bubbly homage as opposed to sincere disruption-it appears that Teezo, 30, made the right decision to join the band and not line up on the 25 yard line. It took me all the way to college at Prairie View A&M. “The next day I signed up for the band,” Teezo recollects. After that mishap, he lined up with a kid who was the same size as him and ended up with his ankles at his ears. First, he forgot to put his chin strap on, a big mistake in the eyes of his screaming football coach. He was in middle school, and the Oklahoma drill-a football practice technique developed by University of Oklahoma coach Bud Wilkinson that pins players against each other to test physical contact-proved to be too intense for the budding adolescent.
Being raised in East Texas, “football player” may have been stamped on a Black baby’s forehead, but Teezo had other ideas. Teezo Touchdown remembers the first time he realized that it was music and fashion, not football, that was going to be his future.
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