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Teyana Taylor for Rolling Out magazine
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“I personally don’t know what my legacy will be because I feel like [there] is so much more left to me,” she explains. “I feel that if I try to predict the future, I will be limiting myself. If I say I want to be a mogul, I might just be more that that. So I’m kind of living in the now and building my brand and empire, so 20 years from now, I can say exactly what I am.”
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“I’m happy,” she admits about her relationship with Shumpert. “I’m not on the phone too much and I’m not really on social media now. When you have a peace of mind, which is your companion, you listen to your man so when he’s telling you to calm down, then eventually you let it go. But when you’re in your own space and you feel independent with your feelings, then it’s just like, ‘OK, I’m going to do what I want to do.’ But when you have your peace of mind, it takes your mind off all the negativity and all the people that [are] trying to bother you.”
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She found herself involved in a public feud with Rihanna that escalated on social media. And she also had to deal with her ex-boyfriend, Brandon Jennings, dating her former associate, Tae Heckard.
Both incidents were followed by fiery responses and a slew of negative comments aimed at Taylor on blogs and social media.
“I don’t block that s— out; it hurts,” Taylor says. “But then you also have the brighter side of things. It’s a give and take. If you can take compliments, then you should be able to take when people have negative things to say. It’s very hurtful, but I don’t block it out. It hurts, then I speak about it, and then it’s over. You’ll read one negative comment out of 99 good comments, but it will be that one negative comment that will really have you pissed off. But once you relax a little bit and calm down and think about the good, then it makes you feel better and you go about your day.”
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The benefit of having Pharrell Williams and Kanye West as mentors helped Taylor focus on creating when the business of music seemed to derail progress.
“Pharrell and Kanye are perfectionists and that’s all they surround themselves with and that’s all they know,” she shares. “When you’re around that, it automatically rubs off on you. So everything I do has to be perfect, it can’t be half-a–ed. You either gotta do it or not do it at all. So, definitely perfection is the most important thing.”
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“Seven is the number of completion,” Taylor says of the meaning behind her debut album. “Seven actually has different meanings, but for me, I feel like I’ve been in the business for seven years and [there have] been a lot of bumpy roads and detours and all types of stuff going on within those seven years. But now in the seventh year, everything is finally completed and is coming together. It’s done and I can give you a full body of work. So that number means a lot to me and this year is very important to me.”
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http://rollingout.com/covers/teyana-taylor-cover-story/
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