Teyana Taylor Won’t ‘Abandon’ Kanye West Over Past Hateful Remarks

Teyana Taylor, whose broadly acclaimed efficiency in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another just lately earned her a Golden Globe, says she’s not going to “abandon” the artist previously often known as Kanye West regardless of his previous hateful remarks.

In an interview with Lindsey Underwood for Vanity Fairrevealed Tuesday (Jan. 13), the GOOD Music alum—whose 2018 album Ok.T.S.E. featured manufacturing from Ye, who additionally beforehand enlisted her for his “Fade” video—was requested concerning the present standing of her relationship with the 24-time Grammy winner.

“I don’t have to agree with everything that he do or say, but I’m not going to, like, abandon him and be like, ‘Yeah, eff that motherfucker,’ ” Taylor instructed the publication, as seen right here. “My brothers do shit that I don’t agree with…. I don’t get into none of that.”

Taylor, who additionally beforehand appeared on Ye’s 2010 traditional My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasywas as soon as broadly believed to be annoyed with Ye and firm’s dealing with of Ok.T.S.E. previously. In 2018, Pusha T, former GOOD Music label boss, mentioned he “caught one of those phone calls” when addressing then-recent talks of an album re-release.

“T is super passionate but the good thing about it is she also knows what she wants,” the 2026 Grammys nominee mentioned on the time.

Following her Globes win, Taylor, whose wonderful efficiency within the 2023 drama A Thousand and One can be value testing, is a frontrunner for the Best Actress class at this 12 months’s Oscars. Nominees are slated to be introduced later this month.

Ye, in the meantime, is broadly believed to be readying his Bully album for an imminent launch. In November, Ye was seen in a video shared by Rabbi Yoshiayao Yosef Pinto expressing regret for his previous hateful rhetoric, together with his string of antisemitic remarks.

“I was dealing with some various issues, dealing with bipolar also,” Ye mentioned within the video, as seen right here.