If there’s a picture-perfect mold of what a young “skater chick” should look like, then it is Teyana Taylor. With…

Growing up in Washington Heights, a largely Dominican enclave in upper Manhattan, it would have been easy or even expected for Shawn Mims to soak up his immediate musical influences. Fast, New York-styled rap or reggaeton might have been his inspirations, but Mims’s breakout song in 2007… more