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‘Teyana & Iman’ bring their vision of black love to VH1

The new reality show debuts Feb. 19

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald
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    2:07 PMIt’s like Black History Month and Valentine’s Day all rolled into one: Teyana & Iman, a new VH1 series following the lives of Teyana Taylor and Iman Shumpert, will debut Feb. 19 at 10 p.m.

    Taylor is the dancer who made such a memorable splash in the Kanye West video for “Fade” in fall 2016, which cemented her status as #bodygoals for pretty much anyone with eyes.

    Her husband, Shumpert, is a guard who the Cleveland Cavaliers just traded to the Sacramento Kings. The eight episodes will offer a closer look at the couple and their baby, Junie. Among the stops? New York Fashion Week.

    “When I look at reality, it don’t look like reality to me,” Shumpert says into the camera for a promo of the series. He’s seated on a white couch wearing nothing but gray sweatpants and a black and brown striped fur coat, next to Taylor, who’s kitted out in a red fur and matching slides.

    What? You don’t have a fur coat that you just wear when you’re kicking it around the house?

    Soraya Nadia McDonald is the senior culture critic for Andscape. She writes about pop culture, fashion, the arts and literature. She is the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan prize for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism and the runner-up for the 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on Black life.