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\n\tJust days after sitting down with Billboard, Teyana Taylor underwent unexpected vocal surgery and is now on vocal rest.<\/p>\n
\n\tAt the Casa De Flores flower shop, Teyana Taylor opened up about why it was time to release her new album, \u2018Escape Room,\u2019 after five years. She talks on working with Tyla on \u201c\u2019PUM PUM JUMP,\u201d collaborating with Jill Scott, how she manifested working with Leonardo DiCaprio on the film, \u2018One Battle After Another,\u2019 her sisterhood with Ciara, learning how to make rice pilaf at culinary school and even sets the record straight on her viral \u201cStraw\u201d strut.<\/p>\n
\n\tTeyana Taylor:<\/p>\n
\n\tHey, y\u2019all, it\u2019s your girl Teyana Taylor, and\u00a0 I\u2019m chilling here at the flower shop with Billboard. I\u2019m excited for y\u2019all to see what we going to pull up today.<\/p>\n
\n\tGail Mitchell:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSo Teyana, welcome to Casa de Flores, and we\u2019re going to put some flower arrangements together.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tOh, my God, I\u2019m so excited.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tYeah.\u00a0 Here\u2019s our vases, right here. Okay, so how did you get into this whole thing with flower arrangement? I know you\u2019re a very creative person.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tYes, it\u2019s crazy, because in my first album, like it was a time where I did didn\u2019t like roses. I didn\u2019t like flowers because I felt like, don\u2019t give them to me. He\u2019s gonna waste my time. But I think dude like maturing and growing into, you know, a young woman made me appreciate the essence of flowers, and I\u2019ve just been in love ever since, my favorite color was red, roses. Like, I never really fully paid attention to them, like, at like, coming up. So it\u2019s kind of just like, you know, my love roses started when I really started to get into the detail of the rose and how beautiful it was and the texture and different things like that. So yeah, now I never put together any roses, but I love to receive them. I love to actually, like, buy them for myself as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n