Teyana Taylor, whose widely acclaimed performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another recently earned her a Golden Globe, says she’s not going to “abandon” the artist formerly known as Kanye West despite his past hateful remarks.
In an interview with Lindsey Underwood for Vanity Fair, published Tuesday (Jan. 13), the GOOD Music alum—whose 2018 album K.T.S.E. featured production from Ye, who also previously enlisted her for his “Fade” video—was asked about the current status 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 told the publication, as seen here. “My brothers do shit that I don’t agree with.... I don’t get into none of that.”
Taylor, who also previously appeared on Ye’s 2010 classic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, was once widely believed to be frustrated with Ye and company’s handling of K.T.S.E. in the past. In 2018, Pusha T, former GOOD Music label boss, said 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 said at the time.
Following her Globes win, Taylor, whose excellent performance in the 2023 drama A Thousand and One is also worth checking out, is a frontrunner for the Best Actress category at this year’s Oscars. Nominees are slated to be announced later this month.
Ye, meanwhile, is widely believed to be readying his Bully album for an imminent release. In November, Ye was seen in a video shared by Rabbi Yoshiayao Yosef Pinto expressing remorse for his past hateful rhetoric, including his string of antisemitic remarks.
“I was dealing with some various issues, dealing with bipolar also,” Ye said in the video, as seen here.
