Is there any part of you that’s sympathetic to Soulja Boy because you were a young man in the industry or do you mostly just want to smack him?
No, I don’t want to smack him. He doesn’t know any better. I would probably doubt if he even finished school or even finished the street ordinance of what and how to treat a woman. Now, I have to say, I used to be that way, but I learned as I got older the consequences of doing that. I just think in a karma way, he better straighten up or he’s going to feel it. If not me, nobody, he’s going to feel it.
The thing about it, he don’t have any morals and when you are dealing with a gentleman who don’t have morals or don’t have feelings, whatsoever, and he’s basically about the facade in what’s going on. He’s making whatever little money he’s making, doing what he’s doing, but he don’t understand that there’s morals to that. There’s a life to that. I think he’s an irresponsible person, period. I think he wings his life. His life is a winging it, whatever happens, happens. I can walk out on the street and somebody can hit me by a car, and I’m just winging it. That’s his mindset. His mindset is, whatever happens. He’s not thinking about life is short. I don’t think he had that on his mind. That’s why I leave that in God’s hands because I know something is going to get done about it.
Were you worried about her signing up for Love & Hip Hop? Did you have a conversation about it?Yeah, we definitely talked about it. We talked about it on the show [the first season] because I didn’t know that situation was with him, so when I went on the show it was a serious surprise.
How do you feel like reality TV and social media, just celebrity constantly 24/7 coverage has changed the industry?
When it comes to reality things, somebody says “Did you see this” or “Did you see yourself on this?” [and I reply] “No, I really don’t know about that. Can you send it to me?” I like to hear on my Instagram page, “You suck!” or “You did well,” and that gives me insight on what I need to do. I know that if they didn’t edit a lot of things that I said out, I know that I did good.
It’s good to see Teddy open up and let everyone know what his true feelings are about this. I hope Soulja Boy has learned his lesson after catching so much flack about his disrespectful words on social media. Based on that recent Love and Hip Hop ATL reunion show, it looks like this dude still hasn’t learned though. He better chill before Teddy puts a hurtin’ on him. It’s only so much a man can take…even if his daughter is grown and still making those mistakes on her own- You mess with a man’s daughter, you mess with him. Don’t hurt ’em Teddy! (But if you do, we old schoolers understand, LOL).
