

In the video, LAYA takes on many forms and faces as she croons about a “late night creep” with her significant other. On June 14 via Warner Records, she returned with a new music video reinventing Missy Elliot’s hit “Sock It 2 Me”. As her career continues to evolve, LAYA’s catalog is also expanding with her melodic work composed of lush, smooth vocals and signature harmonics. While she might be known for singing, the rising artist is also a producer, songwriter, creative director, and visual artist. LAYA wears many hats in the music industry. The multi-talented artist is pushing boundaries with her creative vision. “I ain’t gone front feeling super underappreciated as an artist, receiving little to no real push from the ‘machine,’ constantly getting the shorter end of the stick, being overlooked, I mean the list on and on,” she wrote.Earlier this year, LAYA Face from Staten Island debuted her boundary-breaking EP, Um, Hello. In the same post - alongside her year-end Spotify stats, which showed nearly 163 million streams in 2021 - she also complained about the lack of support from the label. When she quit the industry, she wrote on social media, “Retiring this chapter of my story with the comfort that I can depart with peace of mind seeing that all the hard work and passion put in was indeed loved and supported somewhere in the world.” It’s not that I retired permanently, it’s more like, I don’t want to move another inch for a company.” “I put in a lot of work I felt like the label wasn’t really hearing me and me. “I am going to feel underappreciated if I’m putting in 110 percent and my label is giving me … what, 10 percent of that,” she said. West signed the singer-songwriter - and model/dancer/choreographer/fashion designer/actress - in 2012 while she was working on his album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”īut after releasing her third album, “The Album,” last June, Taylor, 30, shocked fans by announcing her retirement from music in December 2020.Īnd she told Cam Newton’s “Sip an’ Smoke” Web series Thursday that part of the reason for her exit from the industry was that she felt let down by West’s label. Teyana Taylor says that she felt her music was “underappreciated” by Kanye West’s record label “G.O.O.D Music.” How Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert are spending the holidays
