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Teyana Taylor says her friends and family have no filter, which makes her pretty nervous to prank call them in this episode of “Phoning It In.” Watch as the multi-hyphenate leans into her acting skills—asking ‘All’s Fair’ co-star Niecy Nash to represent her in court, telling Lori Harvey she’s retiring from music, and convincing Victoria Monét to take a culinary exam in her place, even if it sounds a little illegal. She also has Keke Palmer rerouting her drive to rescue her from a fake escape room, proving one thing: her girls are always down.

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00:00Are you going to be able to answer these questions
00:01if they ask questions and stuff?
00:03You mean I have to speak?
00:05Yeah. Can we get arrested for that?
00:06Girl, if you don't know how to finesse.
00:10Hey, y'all. It's your girl, Tiana Taylor,
00:11and this is Phoning It In with Elle.
00:14I'm nervous because a lot of my friends and family,
00:17they have no filter.
00:19So I'm really in my head trying to figure out
00:21who I'm going to prank and hope they don't say nothing crazy
00:23on the speakerphone.
00:25OK, let's see.
00:27Say you're stuck in an escape room
00:29and ask them to come and break you out.
00:32I call Kee-Kee.
00:38Hello. Sis.
00:39Oh, my God. Did you make it back to L.A. yet?
00:41Yeah. All right, I need a big fucking favor.
00:44I don't know what you doing right now, but, bitch,
00:46I tried to come to the escape room
00:48to explore, like, a potential album release party for the album.
00:52Bitch, why I'm stuck in a room and I can't get out?
00:55Bitch, I need you to come and get me, bitch.
00:56I'm so fucking scared, bitch.
00:58Wait, wait, I'm literally on my way to ADR.
01:01Where are you at?
01:02Oh, my God.
01:03Bitch, tell me on Hollywood Boulevard.
01:05You where?
01:06On Hollywood Boulevard, bitch.
01:07And you already know it's a little creepy over here, bitch.
01:08You're a little crazy.
01:10Let me see where you're at.
01:12This is crazy, bitch.
01:14I'm, like, in, like, a warehouse-type thing.
01:17And there's nobody with you?
01:18Oh, my gosh.
01:19No, because, bitch, you know how I be doing it most of the time.
01:21I just wanted to see what it was.
01:22And, you know, people don't be believing in my vision.
01:24Bitch, this is the first time I think I was wrong.
01:26OK, let me see what I can do.
01:29It's kind of on the route.
01:30I can maybe just stop.
01:32OK.
01:32Yeah, I need you to come in.
01:34Let me, y'all, bitch, because nobody's answering the phone.
01:36So I don't know if I'm, like, purposely not answering the phone
01:39or what's happening, but, bitch, I'm panicking.
01:40I'm starting to get a panic attack.
01:42Bitch, it's hot in here.
01:44I'm getting close to fall, babe.
01:46OK, give me five minutes.
01:47I'm going to text you.
01:48Can you please stay on the phone?
01:49I need you to stay on the phone with me, bitch.
01:50I'm going to.
01:51OK.
01:51My anxiety is through the roof.
01:53Sir, this looks like it's on the way to where we're going.
01:56Did you possibly stop here?
01:59It's my anxiety.
02:00Oh, my God.
02:01Oh, my God.
02:01I got to get out of here.
02:02It's OK.
02:02We're on the way.
02:03Don't worry.
02:04Don't worry.
02:04Don't worry.
02:05Don't worry.
02:06Don't worry.
02:07It's your head.
02:08Oh, no.
02:09All right.
02:10Kiki, it's OK, baby.
02:11I'm prank calling you an Elle magazine.
02:15You what?
02:17I'm prank calling you an Elle magazine, bitch.
02:20Oh, my God.
02:20Bruh, you got me crying.
02:24Can I please get this?
02:26Yo, that is so funny.
02:28Oh, my God.
02:29I love you so much.
02:30Oh, my God.
02:31This really just, I already loved you.
02:33But like, this just took us to a whole other level.
02:36This is, what?
02:37I'm like, what fucking kind of team does she have?
02:39These motherfuckers are fired.
02:41All of them.
02:44I'm like, how did they leave her ass?
02:46That was a good ass prank, bitch.
02:47Yo, you know my ass ain't going nobody's escape room
02:50by myself.
02:51OK, I'll see you later.
02:52Yeah, I'll see you later tonight.
02:53OK, see you tonight.
02:54All right, love you.
02:55All right, love you, too.
02:56All right.
02:57Rush.
03:00I'm dead.
03:03Say you're going to retire from music
03:05to become a personal trainer.
03:07We're going to call Lori.
03:13Hello.
03:14Hey, babe, what you doing?
03:16I don't think y'all want to phone me.
03:17That's so bad, bitch, buddy.
03:18Oh, my God.
03:19Before you take off, bitch, I need to tell you something.
03:21So I don't want to, I think I'm going to scrap the whole album.
03:26I want to retire again, bitch.
03:27I'm over it.
03:28Long story.
03:28I'll tell you when you land.
03:30But I want to become a personal trainer.
03:32What do you think?
03:33Wait, what?
03:34I don't think so much.
03:35I'm going to go to work.
03:37Because it's just like, you know, I've done everything.
03:40It's like, what else is there to do?
03:41But I wanted you to partner with me.
03:42I want you to be the Pilates teacher.
03:45And then I do more of the dance moving,
03:47like how I had with Fade to Fit.
03:49But like, we merge it.
03:50Girl, what?
03:52I want to call it move your Pilates.
03:55Yeah.
03:57Like Pilates and popping or popping Pilates.
04:01Popping Pilates, bitch.
04:03All the blood and the nerds.
04:05OK, I think maybe let's just like sit on it or something.
04:08Like, who pissed you off?
04:09Bitch, you're playing about to take off.
04:10I can't get into all them details.
04:12Because then once I start talking, and I start crying,
04:14bitch, and the plane take off, and you lose serving,
04:16it's like, and then, bitch, I'm just going to be like out,
04:18and you know ain't nothing like getting hung up on
04:20while you crying, bitch.
04:23I don't know.
04:23Popping Pilates is nuts.
04:24I feel like you just need to like, what's wrong?
04:26I want to call Pussy Pop Pilates.
04:30Like PPP.
04:32PPP love.
04:34I feel like personal trainers.
04:35PPP Pilates.
04:37I thought I would just jump to personal trainers.
04:40What time you going to land?
04:41Because I want to make this announcement tomorrow.
04:43I don't like that from Monday to Monday.
04:45Monday? Monday's too far.
04:47Sit on your four-hour flight and think about it.
04:50And then when you land, you tell me if this pussy popping
04:52on the handstand or not.
04:54OK.
04:55OK, well, thank you for believing in my endeavors.
04:58I do want to let you know I'm here with Elle magazine,
05:00and I just prank called you.
05:05I was screaming.
05:06I was like, why don't we?
05:08I don't know what you're saying.
05:10All right, well, have a safe flight,
05:12and then we'll talk about our Pussy Pop and Pilates
05:15maybe in a few years from now.
05:18Hey, let me check.
05:18All right, let me check back.
05:21Listen, my girls is down.
05:23Let's just see how this goes.
05:25Call a co-star from All's Fair and ask them
05:28to represent you in real life.
05:30I think I'm going to go on EC.
05:34Hello.
05:35Hey, babe.
05:36Hi.
05:37How are you?
05:37How you doing?
05:39I'm all right.
05:40What's going on?
05:41Girl, you know it's always something.
05:43But I do have a serious question that it might be crazy,
05:47but I can only trust you.
05:49OK.
05:50Pretty much, I'm getting into it with my lawyer.
05:52We're not really seeing eye to eye.
05:55And I need you to represent me.
05:58Huh?
05:59What are you talking about?
06:01No, for real.
06:02So look, I know it may sound crazy.
06:04Like, we'll have the bigger ones there, too,
06:05but I really need you, Kim, and Sarah to, like, represent me.
06:10But the lawyer, the lawyer that I'm working with,
06:13the new lawyer that I'm working with,
06:14is literally saying that.
06:16Technically, if you have two weeks of experience,
06:18you can stand, like, you could pretty much be there
06:22and help represent me.
06:24So you would be kind of, like, under the lawyer.
06:26But Kim is already a lawyer.
06:28That's what I'm saying, that's even better.
06:29So that's one person out the park.
06:30Now I need you to learn, and then Sarah.
06:33And then the three of us can really bust through the doorway
06:35and wave in a 4-4, you know?
06:37First of all, there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you.
06:40Let's start there.
06:41That's that on that.
06:42And whatever you need me to do,
06:44just tell me what you need me to do.
06:46Girl, I need you to become a lawyer.
06:47We got two weeks.
06:49This is the last thing I would have ever thought you would have
06:51I know, but you know, I've called you about crazier, you know?
06:54Once we knock this out the park, we'll really be all's fair.
06:56You know?
06:57Like, this could be a real thing.
06:59Girl, this is banana town.
07:02When do you have to be in court?
07:04I'm really trying to knock this out right before the album drop,
07:06because you know I want to be done before this album comes out.
07:11Just let me know what you need me to do.
07:14Let's give me how you stand what this means to me.
07:16I love you so much.
07:17And I am literally sitting here with Elle magazine,
07:19and we just prank called you.
07:20So, because...
07:26Oh, my God.
07:28You a real rider.
07:29My girl was ready.
07:30Is she like, two weeks?
07:31I didn't know nothing I was talking about.
07:33First of all, it's always going to be yes.
07:36And then second is going to be, let me figure out how.
07:39Baby, when I pay you back for this prank,
07:42I know.
07:43You going to know something.
07:45Bye, girl.
07:45All right, bye.
07:46Bye.
07:49Jill.
07:51Let me see.
07:53Say you missed your flight and asked them to take your culinary
07:56final exam in person for you.
07:58I'm going to call Victoria.
08:06Hey, my girl.
08:07Hey, girl.
08:08What's going on?
08:10I just got out of school right now.
08:12Oh, my God.
08:13Speaking of school, I need the biggest favor.
08:16What's going on?
08:17Girl, so today they was going to let me do an in person
08:21at the culinary, whatever.
08:22So they was going to let me pop up to a spot in LA.
08:27But I missed my flight.
08:29But I have to take an exam.
08:30If you could take it for me, that would be amazing.
08:34Um, how do I do that?
08:36Let me just read you what the emails say,
08:37and then we can just take it from there.
08:39You'll only need to cook a three-course meal
08:42with two French pastries, and then start listing the items
08:45they need to pick up on their way.
08:48So I can either just tell you the meal I want to make,
08:50or you could just kind of, like, Google something.
08:53I can't.
08:54Why?
08:55I just left the school, and I'm on the way to work.
08:58Can I ask someone to do it?
08:59No, girl.
09:00That's cheating.
09:01How do you want to go to culinary school,
09:03and you're going to have somebody else do the assignment
09:05that we both need to be doing?
09:06Why has it got to be me?
09:07Because it's just so important, and it's for the culture.
09:10But I literally have a chef at my house, so he can't.
09:13No, girl.
09:14It got to be you.
09:16This is what's going to happen.
09:17I'll ask him to come to the studio.
09:19They have a very, very small kitchen.
09:21OK.
09:21So you can do what you're asking,
09:22and I can take the pictures with my hands.
09:25I like that.
09:27I have my chef outfit on right now,
09:29so I can look very much like I did it,
09:31but I can't picture you after I call it.
09:32Oh my god, send me a picture.
09:34Why didn't you send a picture on your first day of school?
09:35You can't send me a picture, bitch.
09:37You know what?
09:37I look fucking nuts.
09:39And I'm like, I really need the fashion to change, honestly.
09:42Are you going to be able to answer these questions
09:44if they ask questions and stuff?
09:46You mean I have to speak?
09:47Yeah, can we get arrested for that?
09:49Girl, if you don't know how to finesse,
09:52you will be fine.
09:54You'll be fine.
09:55OK.
09:57I feel like you can't do it as illegal, so shit.
10:01OK, OK.
10:02Well, one, this show me how much of a real friend you are
10:05and a real writer you are.
10:06Two, this is a prank call.
10:07I'm sitting here with Elle magazine.
10:09What?
10:10You mother fucker.
10:12I'm sitting here.
10:15Oh my god, I'm fucking crying.
10:20Why did you eat that?
10:22Why did you do that to me?
10:25Forget you, forget Elle, forget all y'all.
10:28OK, all right, well.
10:29Love you, thank you.
10:31OK, bye.
10:32All right, all right, bye.
10:34All right, I'm tapped out, I'm tapped out.
10:37That was good.
10:39Make sure you check out my album, The Escape Room.
10:41Bye.
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