Teyana Taylor might be having the best YEAR ever!
First, she bodied her Lil Kim tribute performance at the HipHop Honors earlier this year. Now, Just days after stealing the show at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards with her starring performance in Kanye West’s “Fade” music video, Teyana has been tapped to star in VH1’s ‘The Breaks’ series.
via Deadline:
Inspired by The Big Payback, a narrative history of the hip-hop business written by journalist Dan Charnas, The Breaks is executive produced by Seith Mann (The Wire) and John J. Strauss (Mozart in the Jungle). The series, a follow to VH1’s original film which aired earlier this year, will continue to follow three young friends as they fulfill their hip hop dreams in New York City in 1990.
Taylor joins a cast that includes Afton Willamson, Wood Harris, Mack Wilds, Antoine Harris, David Call, Evan Handler, Melonie Diaz, Sinqua Walls and Ali Ahn.Inspired by The Big Payback, a narrative history of the hip-hop business written by journalist Dan Charnas, The Breaks is executive produced by Seith Mann (The Wire) and John J. Strauss (Mozart in the Jungle). The series, a follow to VH1’s original film which aired earlier this year, will continue to follow three young friends as they fulfill their hip hop dreams in New York City in 1990.
Taylor also will be doing a stint on VH1’s upcoming Hip Hop Squares.
Im so Proud of Teyana. She’s been grindin for years…. All the Hard Work is PAYING OFF👏👏 Go Girl!!!