♫ NEWS: TEYANA TAYLOR TALKS ABOUT ALBUM / DANITY KANE’S DOLLHOUSE GOES #1 / KANYE GETTING SUED FOR “GOOD LIFE”

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Teyana on TRL last month. (Wireimage)

Recently, Teyana Taylor, who has been nicknamed the Teen President, had an interview with TheSingersRoom, where she gave a little insight into her debut album, From A Planet Called Harlem.

Singersroom: It’s becoming increasingly obvious that you are completely different than any other artist out right now. Can you explain the direction and sound of your debut album?

Teyana Taylor: Well, for my album, it’s called From A Planet Called Harlem, it’s kind of like my own world of Harlem world. It’s like us coming together and collaborating. Everyone who wants to visit says, “Yeah, I want to go to New York!” We got that swag. From the walk to the talk to the way we dress. It’s kind of like our own little planet. So, I named the album From a Planet Called Harlem and it’s so dope because I worked with so many different producers with so many different styles. So, my music is coming from so many different directions as far as rapping, urban, rock, a little bit of jazz. It’s really, really a great little look and there a lot of different great songs.

Teyana also let The Singer’s Room know that her album will be dropping this summer, on the 20th of May, via Star Trak/Interscope, and that she’s been busy doing showcases all over the United States.

From A Planet Called Harlem will feature productions from The Clutch, Hit Boy, The Neptunes and of course, Jazze Pha, who is responsible for Teyana’s first single, “Google Me.” I’m excited to see what my girl’s album is going to sound like. Make sure you check her out on MySpace and tell her Brian from CL sent you!

Danity Kane scores big again by snagging the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 200 chart, after releasing their sophomore album, Welcome to the Dollhouse.

Aubrey, D. Woods, Dawn, Aundrea and Shannon moved 236,000 copies of their sophomore set, an impressive debut after a few weeks of disappointing numbers from some other albums that debuted at the #1 spot. This is their second #1 debut: their debut album, Danity Kane moved 234,000 copies in the album’s first week.

After the Making the Band 4 season finale, we find out that there will be another season of the show and the girls are set to go out on tour with the boys of Day 26, whose album was released just on the 25th, as well as solo act Donnie, whom we’re still waiting on a release date for.

I’m glad the sophomore hump didn’t beat my girls out and they’re getting the love they deserve. I like Danity Kane - there’s no other female group out there doing it like them.

In a lawsuit filed in Maryland District Court, Dayna Staggs (aka D’Mystro) is suing Kanye West — and his record label, Roc-a-Fella — for copyright infringement. Staggs says that West “didn’t obtain a license to use ‘Volume of Good Life’” for his tune, and points out that Kanye was “only at the age of 6 or 7 years of age [sic]” when his song was written.

D’Mystro is also states that Kanye’s version “contains vulgar and offensive” images and “harms the reputation” of his much cleaner song. He wants 85% of all world sales of the proceeds from the music that uses his work, though he doesn’t explain how he came up with that number [ READ MORE ].