Maiya The Don is a real pupil of the video game. She stands for the hip-hop tradition of Brooklyn to the max with an effective pen video game and excellent punchlines. Maiya’s initial preference of hip-hop mainstream success got here in the type of her 2022 Sisqo-sampled track “Telfy.” The confidence-inducing anthem has actually generated over 7 million streams and Spotify. Her launching mixtape, Hot Commodity, has been met cosigns from the similarity Lil’ Kim, Ty Dolla $ign and Mariah Carey, to name a few.
The BK MC comes with XXL‘s The Damage Live for a meeting concerning her brand-new solitary “Mean It,” being carefully picked by Latto for the first-ever all-female XXL Cypher Laboratory, the present state of lyricism in rap and even more. View the meeting listed below.
Age: 22
Reppin’ : Brooklyn
Instagram: @maiyathedonn
TikTok: @maiyathedon
Notable Launches: Tracks: “Telfy,” “Dusties,” Flo Milli’s “Conceited” including Maiya The Don and Lola Brooke; Mixtapes: Hot Commodity
Label: Independent
Currently Dealing with: Untitled job decreasing in 2024.
Influenced by: “I would certainly claim everyone. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Missy Elliott, Drake. I simply enjoy everyone.”
When did you initially begin rapping?
” I began rapping seriously like 2 years back. Prior to after that, I would certainly do little raps to fight my bro. We would certainly freestyle and rap fight. We utilized to do things like that while seeing the Freestyle Fridays on 106 & & Park.”
What are your ideas on why ladies are controling hip-hop the method they are?
” I assume what it is currently is that we’re simply lastly obtaining the regard that we are entitled to. For a long period of time, ladies in hip-hop were utilized as a device. Ladies were utilized as like, ‘Right here’s the sexual magnetism, right here’s just how we’re going to obtain ladies to pay attention to our songs.’ Currently, it has to do with us being the songs. We have something to claim.”
What’s your imaginative procedure behind creating your rhymes?
” I create. I locate that creating a knowledgeable, you’re much more willful. The most effective points appear of placing pen to pad and actually placing assumed behind it. Entering the workshop and simply freestyling, it’s amazing, however not everyone is Hov and I desire everyone to leave that fad and begin rapping once again.”
Watch the complete meeting listed below.
Comply with Maiya The Don on Spotify.
Standouts:
” Mean It”
” Telfy”
” Dusties”
” Reality Is Freestyle”
Hot Commodity
