Teyana Taylor continues the rollout of her upcoming album Escape Room, unveiling the star-studded tracklist.
The R&B star and multi-hyphenate entertainer’s album (which drops August 22) contains visitor options like Jill Scott, Tyla, Fortunate Daye, and Kaytranada. The family-oriented singer additionally contains her youngsters, Rue Rose and Junie Shumpert, on the album’s closing monitor. Taylor showcases her ardour for performing on the album, including narrative interludes from award-winning actors Taraji P. Henson, Sarah Paulson, La La, Niecey Nash, Tasha Smith, Jodie Turner-Smith, Issa Rae, Kerry Washington, and Regina King. The monitor record announcement exhibits Taylor’s mind and physique related to a number of wires, teasing the album’s cinematic expertise.
Escape Room options lead single ‘Long Time,’ a becoming title because the album marks Taylor’s first LP in 5 years. Taylor introduced Escape Room with a trailer for the album’s accompanying brief movie, which co-stars Lakeith Stanfield and Aaron Pierre. The artist wrote, directed, and produced the movie alongside her all-female manufacturing firm, the Aunties.
Escape Room follows 2020’s The Album, which acquired a RIAA gold certification again in June. Throughout an look on The Right this moment Present, Taylor was given gold plaques for The Album and 2018’s Okay.T.S.E., together with platinum plaques for a few her singles.
Whereas Taylor took a short pause from music, she turned much more lively in her performing profession, starring in 2021’s Coming 2 America. In 2023, she appeared in A Thousand and One, White Males Can’t Bounce, and The E book of Clarence. This yr, her initiatives embrace Tyler Perry’s Straw (which premiered on Netflix in June) and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other. Set for a September launch, she’ll star reverse Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, and Sean Penn. She’s additionally set to affix Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in The Rip on Netflix and is a part of Ryan Murphy’s All’s Honest alongside Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Glenn Shut, and Sarah Paulson.
