The newest protégé of Pharrell’s Star Trak label, Teyana Taylor, covers the new issue of Trace Magazine (on stands now). Alexandra Phanor kicked it with the 16 year-old Harlem native and they spoke on how she taught Beyonce how to dance, her crush on Shia Labeouf, and her ‘Sweet Sixteen’ experience.
Snippets from the article, as well as more photos are after the cut.
TEYANA ON TEACHING BEYONCE
Beyoncé even enlisted Teyana to teach her the dance for a segment in her “Ring The Alarm” video.
“She was mad focused and really wanted to learn,” recalls Teyana.
TEYANA ON HER CRUSH
“It’s Shia Labeouf! I’ve got my eye on him. I mean, for real. He’s so cute and I looove his swagger.”
But she makes sure to note that her career is her boyfriend
“Yeah, I do have my eye on Shia, but to be honest performing is my boyfriend right now. That’s just what I really love and we’ve been together for so long.”
TEYANA ON HER LOOK
“I always stood out as far as dressing,” she says. “I like to look different and people know me for that. My look is a mix of old-school hip-hop and skater.”
TEYANA ON PHARRELL
“I sang for the Senior Vice President of A&R at Universal, and he asked me the top five people I would really want to work with and my first three were Pharrell. It was crazy to meet him. I mean I love that dude and we connected,” Teyana recalls.
Pharrell couldn’t agree more, “I heard about how talented she was, and I wanted to meet her. I was impressed she could, sing, dance and rap, so we gave her a shot.”
TEYANA ON RECEIVING FREE CLOTHES FROM ‘HEATHERETTE’
“I love their clothes. They make a dress, and it’s not like a pretty princess dress. It’s not girlie but more rock star and out there. That’s like the only dresses I’ll wear. They are just like me – they are unique and don’t care what people say. I fell in love with them, and them with me,” says Teyana.
I thought she was a brat when i saw her butt on MTV.
TGIF mofos
IS THAT THE GIRL FROM SUPER SWEET 16, FARELL’S ARTIST?
Yep … thats her
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I like this chick. I think she should battle Lil Mama. That would be funny.
I CANT LIE SHE HAS A NICE SWAGGER…..HER SHOES ALWAYS ON POINT.
YOUR RIGHT THAT DAMN SURE IS HER, I LIKE HER I CANT WAIT TO HEAR HER MUSIC.
I like the girl’s style, and she’s got some talent…but she was a little beyotch on Sweet Sixteen..
@ #8 SHUT THE HELL UP MAYBE I JUST LOOKE @ THE PIC AND THEN POSTED MY COMMENT WHATS IT TO YOU?
Uh O watchout lil mama I think u might have some competiton! She’s cute in a different way! Damn I miss bein 16 my stomach used to look like that too! Lol That all went away in college & after a havin a baby! Lol
I like her but I am not too sure who her audience will be, I hope they keep her young. Her mom seems likes a momager, so God knows what that will be like. What does her mom do? If anyone knows because she was kicking out some serious loot for that child’s birthday and unlike every other child they never said how her mom made her bank.
the one has spoken…
Awwww…Don’t really know who she is, but someone needs to tell her that her “look” ain’t nothing new.
lol @ most of these youngsters thinking they’ve invented some shit. lawd
You’re right, Pittbboi. All of them act like little beyotches on Sweet Sixteen. Spoiled brats!
She can really make it to STAR potential with the right dream team. It’s crazy to see her & then listen to her…I’d never expect that voice to come out of her lil self! BTW her hair is ultra FAB~
Her swagger is huge and I thought her episode of MSS was great. All of the kids are bratty but she was less extreme. But her style reminds me of Kelis and Gwen Stefani while its dope I dont think she is re-inventing sliced bread with her style.
Her style is sick. I like it.
# 1 I didn’t see her on sweet 16 I can’t stand them spoiled lil brats so i don’t watch they’re never thankful 4 anything! I hope it don’t all go 2 her head!
She’s a raw talent, but who is her audience?
she is strange. it seems like in the industry either follow the same formula or try to be so ” different” to set them apart. it is all so staged and fake. there is nothing new about her wanting to be different with her “new” sound and “new” look. phlueez…sit down.
ive been waiting for her to come out since her sweet 16 aired!
hoping she would battle it out w/ lil mama & her lipgloss.
i dunno. but, this girl is seriously flyy. and her lacefront is
serious.
#3, Reading is fundamental.
@ #18 yeah there are some clips online , check it out
thank God somebody’s not scarred to look afrocentric
i wish i had her lips
I’m not impressed.
I really like her caue she has a different unique style. Most of those kids on the MTV show MY SUPER SWEET SIXTEEN are not fully responsible for their actions. Did you check out how stupid their parents are? I mean its over the top. So it’s not totally their fault. The parents should be responsible its their money. But I do like her.
ummmmmmmmmmmmm okay whateva am not impressed
I like this girl, she’s bringing one thing for damn sure..originality
She did a pretty good job on her performance @ her sweetsixteen. I usually watch sometimes even though I don’t like the show, because they go through the same formula as cribs, nobody introduction or party is different. They pick out high priced clothes and @ the end they get a high priced car. Congrats to her success and hope she brings something different to table other than her style.
*Shrugs*
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I just listened to her track on MySpace and to be honest it’s kinda rubbish. And what’s so “afrocentric” about her? Her frizzy lacefront?
I know about this chick! Out of all the spoiled Rotten kids on the MTV show “My super sweet 16″ I loved her episode the best. Eventhough, it’s so obvious that her mother has spoiled her Rotten to the core as with the rest of the kids on that show, she still has some sense of being well grounded & level headed.
I remember when Pharrell put KELIS on the map. This girl kind of reminds me of KELIS. I am sure she is going to blow the walls of the MUSIC INDUSTRY down! & you know what it’s about time for a NEW FACE! She is adorable. She is only 16 but she has this “MATURE GROWN WOMAN VOICE”–lol! (So many females have these really pretty faces & bodies…but when they open their mouths they sound like “little girls”…annoying, squeaky, tiny voiced females—& many aren’t even teenagers-I realize they can’t help that they have a little voice, but uuugh! How annoying is that voice on a dudes voicemail or on the other end of a phone)? LOL!
Anyway, this girl is the next HOT thing!
Is her dad someone big in the industry? does anyone know what her parents do for a living cause that sweet sixteen party did not look cheap??
I don’t think she was that bad on MS16, compared to a lot of them brats.
I thought she and the girl that have the LIPGLOSS song were the same
Man, that’s one ugly kid.
If by unique she means fugly then she is VERY unique.
Another talentless nobody trying to get by on a gimick.
I read somewhere that her father was the founder of the clothing line Fubu and also Heatherette (the clothing she wore to her party) and also multiple other clothing lines.
Everyone is trying to get in Shia’s boxers…who would’ve known the little runt from Even Stevens would become a sex symbol. *shrug*
She has the BEST swagger out there. I was JUST literally talking to my ex in NY about her. He always sees her out SoHo. We LOL’d at how our friend “Fly Ty” aka baby Trey Songz tried to put the mack on her & got shut down. LMFAO.
LOOOOOOVE her hair.
SHES A RUDE, ARROGANT HARLEM HOODRAT THAT WALKS AROUND THE HOOD EVERYDAY, NO RANGE, NO TALENT, JUST STOLE THE PHARELL LOOK AND THREW A WIG ON, THATS RIGHT WIG!!!! I KNOW HER PERSONALLY, SHES LIVES ON 144TH STREET WITH THE RATS JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
When I saw her on MTV, I wondered, what was her claim to fame.
Thought she probably had famous parents or something.
LOL DAMN
LOL at #41 my dude got shut down cause her entourage came out of nowhere and just cock block the whole situation LMAO
Everyone whom have curly or wavy hair is not wear ing a lace-front wig. That’s her HAIR. It is so annoying when you see a black chick with nice hair or really thick hair and ASSUME it a wig or weave. Not all black chicks wear weaves. My hair is very similar to hers but longer and I always have someone approach me asking if I am wearing a wig. I must admit sometimes it looks like one, but it not. So please stop assuming that everying is wearing fake hair.
I thought she was horribly ugly when I saw her on MSSS. Not to mention that horrid voice. She carries herself like a dude.
Agrees with # 48 about her voice LOL she do sound like a dude though in person real talk my home boy was like her voice was crazy deep deeper than his LMAO
IM sorry but she is not attractive or talented to me. ive heard her voice and this is old news cl late wit this one yall slippin for real. but i guess its good cuz it gives time to check for accuracy unlike other sites that just post and post and little truth to anything being said. but anyways HER HAIR IS REAL GEEZ!!! she even gets it blown out on some occasions. i would go crazy trying to control that damn hair.
^^^she does carry herself like a dude. i thought the chick was gay.
black chicks love some shia now lol. he is a cutie and hes funny
she kinda ugly but then kinda pretty . . .ionno. . . her voice was definitely annoying on the show too. i like her hait tho! i dont know if she will be the next thing cuz i cant picture her having a core audience
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OH TEYANA .. I HEART SHIA TOO..
Black girls have a thing for Shia.. When I went to see Disturbia, the theatre was packed with preteen/teen/18 – 25 black girls – some screaming his name..
He has us hypnotized! LOL
Teyana is original.. A girl not afraid to keep it kinky and different!
lmfao @ #49….dun really care bout her either wayyy but whoever sed her && lil mama shud battle is riiiite……they shud release a album on the same day…lmao THAT wud b entertaining
Why did she go to Star Trak? Don’t she know that all of their albums get pushed back and never comes out. She should have just signed to Interscope period. By that one song on her myspace page Lil Mama would eat her alive.
She’s nothin more than a KELIS clone. Tell me she’s not!…I peeped her myspace after she did sweet 16 and she didnt start rockin the swag she got now until she hooked up with Pharrell. I love me some KELIS and she is unique, she cant be duplicated so ole girl needs to go back to the drawing board.
NOT HATIN just statin the facts. Peep the milkshake video, Kelis got the hair and the sneakers on lock!=)
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm no
Question: Can someone please tell me why haven’t I heard a thing from this child. I mean I like how her lablel is promoting her but seriously in a nice way, WHY AM I READING ABOUT HER?
And lastly, was Beyonce dancing in Ring The Alarm, the most physical thing I remember was her laying on a table and getting taken away by cops! LOL!
lol @ how ugly she is.
“You’re right, Pittbboi. All of them act like little beyotches on Sweet Sixteen. Spoiled brats!:
O-K!! I can’t stand that show! I don’t know WHY those parents put up with that shit, those kids just be the RUDEST. Shit, if I was one of those kids’ parents, I’d have been like,
“Hold UP! I KNOW you didn’t just step to me like YOU the one payin for shit up in this bitch! Helll no, this about to be MY sweet sixteen, keep fuckin up…”