HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — They call him the king of the new jack swing. Teddy Riley is an artist and one of the biggest super producers the music industry has ever seen.

He’s produced hits for Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, and Lady Gaga, but still as a black man, he says he’s never been appreciated as a person beyond his talents.

“They don’t really appreciate us, but they do love black culture and that’s what everybody feels," Riley said. "Being black in the music industry, being black in the world, we don’t get a fair share of our own content.”

But he’s still delivering a message of hope. He said he is happy to see companies plus local and state governments recognize Juneteenth as a holiday.

“That means a change is coming,” Riley said.

He was supposed to be working on a new album, and a new book. But he’s pushed that to the side to produce music centered around the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Music has been the answer, but we just gotta do it to where [it] does speak to the people and we stay on that subject,” Riley said. “I want something that’s going to stand. I want to do something that’s going to stand the test the time just like our music has.”

But he knows he can’t do it alone, he said. For him, equality for all will benefit everyone in America.

“I we don’t come together and speak, as a nation, we will lose,” Riley said.

It’s why he’s doing his part delivering the message with his mouth and the sound of music.