Pharrell and Teyana Taylor watch the playback on the set for the video shoot for “Google Me, Child” on February 5, 2008 in Brooklyn, New York (Brian Ach/WireImage).
Only one 12 months after being slammed by Kelis, Pharrell Williams is now catching warmth from former Star Trak Leisure act Teyana Taylor. The star of A Thousand and One was not too long ago on the Angie Martinez IRL podcast, the place she mirrored on being signed to Skateboard P within the late- 2000s.
“Getting signed to a person, it was like a determine to me… I checked out these individuals like figures. Whether or not it was as a dad, as a brother, it didn’t matter,” Taylor stated, alluding to Williams. “So it’s like, you didn’t see me, you didn’t hear me, you didn’t shield me. you type of identical to fed me to the wolves type-sh*t with out in all probability even realizing. A few of these conversations nonetheless must be had.”
She continued, “I had a very actually, actually, actually deep and sincere dialog with Pharrell as a result of , he was the primary particular person to signal me. He was Skateboard P, I used to be Skateboard T. You can’t inform me that wasn’t my pops. I actually seemed as much as him. He didn’t have children on the time, and he needed children. He’d be like ‘Yo she name me her pops.’ He was actually happy with that.”
Williams appeared on Taylor’s now-classic episode of My Super Sweet Sixteen and the 32-year-old’s first music video, “Google Me.” Her deliberate Star Trak debut From A Planet Referred to as Harlem, went unreleased as Taylor would in the end depart the label for G.O.O.D. Music, the place she remained from 2012 to 2020.
“He’s not confrontational in any respect. He’s actually one of many sweetest individuals in simply the entire vast world, what I’m saying?” Taylor advised Martinez. “So, it wasn’t that he didn’t shield me, it’s simply that quite a lot of fingers began going into the cookie jar… it’s P, he not bout to be like ‘no, yall ni**as again up,” she stated.
She continued, “Possibly he was damage about some issues. You don’t know. It might’ve been a factor of pleasure and ego on the time. We don’t know. To me, as a 15-year-old, it was, you didn’t shield me. You let everybody mishandle me. I signed to you. You let everyone get in the best way and everyone break us aside. You didn’t shield me.”
The “Rose In Harlem” singer later shared that the 2 are on good phrases, having patched issues up within the final decade, presumably after Taylor’s look in Kanye West’s “Fade” music video.
“That’s what made it even doper. As a result of for me, I used to be on the high, high, high when that sh*t got here out,” she stated. “And for me, I really like that I used to be capable of share that with him throughout a excessive and never like hitting anyone up when you’re indignant and sitting round someplace bitter, nah it wasn’t that. I used to be in a poised, sleek place, and simply let him understand how proud I used to be of simply us and the way far we’ve come.”
“I be basking in my blessings, and I can be having them moments once I simply suppose, rattling, irrespective of how I felt once I was youthful, none of those doorways would have ever opened for me if it wasn’t for P,” she stated.
Taylor has since moved on from music after asserting her retirement in 2022. She’s most not too long ago turn out to be a inventive director for Latto, choreographing her Coachella efficiency.
Latto hires Teyana Taylor as her inventive director. pic.twitter.com/tiHE9Cwb64
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