Teyana Taylor's new album is for "lover girls"

Teyana - who finalised her divorce from Iman Shumpert in 2024 - told i-D magazine: "I call it my ombre album. It's for lover girls. Being able to take in new love, you start to feel beautiful and seen again. Allowing somebody to kiss your wounds."

Teyana explained that she's now in a much better frame of mind, having overcome her painful divorce from Iman.

She said: "Once you take a woman out of survival mode, she will blossom, and I feel like I've blossomed out loud into the woman that I've always been versus being blocked by rain and thunder.

"Now, it's just clear skies. That's what Escape Room represents. I don't have to be trapped in one room."

Teyana has two daughters with Iman and she admits that motherhood has changed her outlook on life.

She shared: "Motherhood made me tap into being a whole other beast. It was a whole different level of hustle and a whole different level of faith. I got two little beings to live for. So to be stuck here sitting, being angry and hurt? No."

Teyana actually took a break from making music after becoming a mom and she's explained how it altered her approach to her own career.

She told InStyle magazine: "My grind is different, my hustle is different. Like, I'm not playing with y'all, my tolerance is different, what I'm willing to take and what I'm not willing to take - you get what I'm saying?

"Motherhood is what made me start to pour more into the other things that I love to do and also to help other people."

Teyana has also relied on her faith to help her to overcome challenges in her life.

She said: "I always trust in God, but that was a time when I leaned on him a lot more than I usually did. I leaned on him fully, and fully prayed, like, on my knees."