10* Things Teyana Taylor Can’t Live Without

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Teyana Taylor joins GQ to reveal her 10 Essentials. The American singer-songwriter breaks down her daily essentials: from her smells (“this is the essential I’m most mad about sharing”) to her makeup (“I don’t play about my brows and my lips”). Watch the full episode of GQ’s 10 Essentials, as Teyana Taylor reveals 10 things she can’t live without.  * = probably not 10 things…  ----------  Director: Jeremy Clowney Director of Photography: Brad Wickham Featuring: Gerard Zarra Talent: Teyana Taylor Producer: Camille Ramos Line Producer: Jen Santos Production Manager: James Pipitone Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes Talent Booker: Ernesto Macias Camera Operator: Carlos Araujo Gaffer: David Djaco Sound Mixer: Mariya Chulichkova Production Assistant: Shanti Cuizon-Burden Post Production Supervisor: Jess Dunn Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi Additional Editor: Jason Malizia Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow

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00:00What's up, GQ? I'm Tiana Taylor, and these are 10 things I cannot live without.

00:06My first essential, my speaker. For real, joint. I love this speaker because, honestly,

00:18I have to have music with me everywhere I go. When I shower, I like to listen to music when

00:22I sleep. I'm a big sweeper. I love clean floors. Homegirls come over with their weaves and shit,

00:27mmm, mmm, mmm, gotta sweep that shit up. So I'll get in my little moo moo, grab my broom,

00:32light a candle, start sweeping the shit, everything smell good, everything look good,

00:37you know what I'm saying? Then plop on the couch and just live in the moment. You know,

00:42my playlist. Marvin Gaye, I Want You album, the whole album. I could do that whole album.

00:48I got a little vibe. My little playlist is lit. I ain't even gonna hold you.

00:53Minnie Rippleton, Isley Brothers, Sade, Juanita Baker, Tina Marie. I also got a fire gospel

01:01playlist. What? Mmm. Like, I listen to that, like, every day. Like, that's not even, like,

01:07a, just like, you know, like, you know, a little Sunday fun day, and we going to church.

01:11Mm-mm, that ain't that. Like, I'll be like, the gift that looks good on you. You were born with the

01:17Grey's stooped on it. Ah, they get crazy. And sturdy on the guy, y'all. It be crazy. So it's like,

01:24my playlist is all over the place. I do have, like, an emo playlist, because, like, when I was,

01:30like, 15, 16, I was just like, what? My Chemical Romance?

01:33Oh, yeah. I never said a lion way forever.

01:41You see, like, how my whole play, I can get sturdy to gospel, rock, pop, R&B, like.

01:47Oh, I even got the, um, the Yacht Rock essentials. I'm never gonna hurry. I'm never gonna get into that.

01:56Candies. Look it, it looks good on you. It looks good on you. It looks good.

02:03I love candy. Speaking of gushers and fruit roll-ups, took these to the Met Gala. I like pixie sticks.

02:14I have, like, an addiction to pixie sticks. Like, I can be dead smacked in the middle of a shoot and

02:18be whooping some pixie sticks on me, and it doesn't even matter what color, it turns my mouth. And I'm

02:24more of a purple bad girl, but red or dew. Red or dew on a desperate time. You get what I'm saying? Like,

02:31red is, like, classic, but them purple ones? Chef kiss. And the sour skittles, of course,

02:38is always lit. Anything sour, I, like, knock the red ones off. And this is, like,

02:45sours is lit. Brushes is lit. Airhead extremes. It's lit. Sour powers. So, yeah, that's that. Let's go to the next thing.

02:54This is my wallet, you guys.

03:01How cool is this? This is a Balenciaga wallet, but what I loved about it when I seen it, because I

03:08travel so much, I love the effect that it looked like a passport with, like, plane tickets and stuff,

03:13but it's really not. It's really a wallet. I think, of course, the wallet is essential because

03:18that's where the coin resides. But besides the coin and your identification,

03:23I have pictures in here of me and my babies. I'm one of those kind of moms. Oh, because I got

03:31another picture in here, too. Gotta be careful, make sure I don't show that. So my kids and then my man,

03:37you know what I'm saying? You gotta keep those. So, yeah, this is very, very important and it's cute.

03:43I love it. Now, this is the part that Lee sent you that I'm most mad about sharing,

03:52because I do gatekeep my smells. These are two rub on oils. Oils are way better than actual perfumes.

03:59You want to put your oils on, then you want to put your perfumes on. These are what I get from

04:04Le Labo. However, both these, if you look closely, you see there's a whole lot of stuff going on in them.

04:09This is a concoction of different oils and smell goods. I ain't got to tell you what's in there,

04:14but these are the two main things. You got to do layers, you know what I'm saying? So,

04:17I do keep the travel size, Tom Ford. And then this, NDA by Forever Mood is fire.

04:25I had the travel size, but I whooped the travel size, so I had to bring out my big one for y'all today.

04:30But then one more thing. Then for deodorant, Donna Karan deodorant. Should smell fire. It's good.

04:41That right there, you just keep in the bag at all times. You know what I'm saying? You never know.

04:47The more you layer, the more you create your own unique scent. And what I love about this is I can

04:53wear them all together or depending on what mood I'm in or like if I'm, if I'm feeling sexy,

04:58if I'm feeling more, you know, chill, if I'm feeling more, you know, it's a scent for all of that.

05:04But most, you know, most importantly, I do everything. I love smelling good. People be like,

05:08oh my gosh, she smells so good. But I think by the time I tell you how many things I have in these

05:14little oil bottles, somebody gonna have to cut a check. So I got my Meta Ray-Bans. I ain't gonna

05:24go in front. I got flavors too. I got mad at these shits. I love these because I can capture great

05:31things. You know, I'm in a super creative space right now. Got a lot going on and I've never really

05:36been good with like content. Like I'm so old school and it's not even on purpose. I actually want to get

05:43better because I'm the kind of person that will be, I mean, in the biggest of the biggest rooms,

05:47like most iconic people and really just enjoy the moment. Like, I just don't think about,

05:54hey, let's get a picture or let's like, you know how some girls would like on an Instagram story,

05:59it'd be so cute. They like have videos of like avocado toast and shit, or they went to the gym or

06:05it's like little mirror shots. Like that's so cute to me. Like, and I'm like, damn, I wish I could take a

06:11picture of my avocado toast. The Meta Ray-Bans actually made it better for me to just press

06:17a button. I think also just being a mom and, you know, being with the kids, because my kids are so

06:22funny. I'm like, by the time I try and scramble and pull out the phone, they just look at the camera

06:27like, you know what I'm saying? So with the glasses, it's a quick little, you know, poop, poop, poop,

06:31poop. So I've actually been getting a lot better with collecting content. I also get to like, it picks up

06:37your phone. You can ask questions. I'm like, hey, Meta, what color is the sky today? You know what I'm

06:43saying? Like the weather. If I'm playing music, the music play out, like these shits is lit. I ain't

06:48even gonna hold you. Chanel hand lotion. You know how ashy your hands get when you wash your hands? Well,

06:57people who do wash their hands when they come out the bathroom, you know how important it is to have

07:02that lotion. Cause you know that feeling like when your hands is like so clean that it's like, like so

07:09for me, I have to keep lotion around. And I just love how like a cute little egg, like I'm a big like, I

07:14think it's so cute.

07:19Portable charging.

07:22My phone is always dying. Why I like this is because this right here is a magnet. So I can charge my phone,

07:30your phone and her phone at the same damn time. And then right here, it lets you know

07:35how much you got left. So it's a hundred percent or whatever the number is. You can plug in old

07:39school phone. You get the old school phone. You can plug in the new school phone. This is like perfect.

07:43And then you got another little extra joint that come out just because, you know what I'm saying? And

07:48it plugs into the wall. So it ain't like, you gotta have a cord. You know what I'm saying? You plug it in

07:52and you got all of this plus that. A little sucker right there. Like

08:05Sweet Mint Orbit. My favorite gum. Definitely having gum is essential because having to like leave the

08:15house nice clean teeth brush, mouth fresh, all of the things. And then you bust down

08:22a breakfast burrito. You know what I'm saying? Or like just something that's real aggressive,

08:28especially for people who love mushrooms.

08:36My Starbucks order, which is a strawberries and cream whipped cream at the bottom and the top.

08:41And you know what's crazy is I've been having my strawberries and cream like that, like since I was

08:4716 or 17 and never changed. I'll have like strawberries and cool with, you know, or strawberries

08:54and yogurt. Anything is like strawberries and some type of cream. See, I don't like when it get like this.

08:59So sometimes you got to like shake that shit around. But if it's still like mad juicy, I'll throw the whole

09:03thing away. I'm so funny about stuff like that. Like I cannot do, I hate when smoothies turn into juice.

09:09I hate when like these kind of like mm-mm.

09:20So for me, I can go the rest of my life with just a few things. I don't play about my brows.

09:27Always got to have a good brow. These are like two different brow pencils.

09:31I don't play about my lip gloss. It's a K skin. Lip balm and it's SPF. I know we ignore it,

09:38but it's actually really important to keep your lips, you know, protected. This is like a SPF stick

09:48for your face. And Lip Liner. Really honestly, a good brow and a good lip.

09:54Mm. And then last but not least,

10:03it's the Tyler Creative Collection with Louie. I don't wore it down to the ground. I got to get it

10:07clean. Like, you know, some people just like get certain stuff and then they like use it at a coffee

10:12table or they don't touch it or they keep a box up and say, oh, this is from real bougie

10:18shit going on. But it's just like, I didn't pay that much motherfucking money to not wear my

10:23shit. I was in the way and tear my mouth. I was wearing tear on this shit. So let's see what's in here.

10:30Sour powers. What's in here? Oh yeah, again, skincare. I got my lotions, got my face mist.

10:39I got my vitamins, vitamin E, probiotics, mini flat iron because you know, I'm a pixie girl, cordless,

10:48wireless. Be on this interview right now, like, huh, what's your ass say? My shit really be curling,

10:53like, yeah. Oh, definitely a Velcro wrap with a pixie to make sure. I might be anywhere in the world,

11:02you know, you know, they might hit me up like, yeah, what up? You feel me? This the kit. You know,

11:11everything we need in here to be ready. So I ain't gotta get ready. When you stay ready, you ain't gotta

11:20get ready. I don't make the rules. I got some underwear in here too. I had a great time putting

11:30you all in my business, in my bag, GQ, bag.

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