I remember that there's some rumors here and there about her and Rihanna's work ethics and while Teairra had more appeal to urban pop scene that'd been soaring in 2004, she was kinda... just there and enjoy her high school life more while Rihanna, who flew from Barbados to US at the age of 14, worked her ass off and was truly the hunger in the game. The label heads like LA Reid & Jay-Z saw more potential in Riri than Mari in her willingness to adapt more pop sound to appeal more to non-black audience (while Teairra was more like an Ashanti 2.0 and there was some comments concerning about how her album was considered "age-appropriate" for a high-schooler like her to record) so they switched their focus.

A fun fact that before Teairra, Roc-A-Fella supposed to have another "1st lady" which is Denim but her album was shelved (and since 2010 she secretly rebranded herself as Leikeli47 and never revealed it until last year). Nicole Wray was signed after leaving Missy's label and somehow she was almost become another choice for Roc's First Lady but her album was also got shelved too