- GOV’T NAME: Maiya Earley
- AGE: 22
- REPPIN’: Brooklyn
- X: @maiyathedon
- INSTAGRAM: @maiyathedonn
- TIKTOK: @maiyathedon
- NOTABLE RELEASES: Songs: “Telfy,” “Dusties,” “Luv You Higher” with Shawny Binladen, “Costly” that includes Flo Milli; Tasks: Sizzling Commodity; Visitor Appearances: Flo Milli’s “Immodest” that includes Lola Brooke; Flo Milli’s “Something Flows” that includes 2Rare and Kari Fake; Lay Bankz’s “No Extra Crying”
- LABEL: The Pinnacle Ent.
- CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Untitled mixtape dropping this summer season.
- WHO ELSE SHOULD BE PART OF THIS YEAR’S CLASS: “I really feel like all people who’s on that deserves it, labored onerous, did what they needed to do, and so they put they steps in. Anyone who’s not on the listing, it’s not like, career-determining. You continue to gonna do what you gotta do, and there’s gonna be extra covers and extra alternatives.”
- INFLUENCED BY: “I prefer to say I’m influenced by all people. I feel anyone out of New York, particularly the ladies. I can’t be a younger Black girl from New York and never identify Lil’ Kim, Cunning Brown, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, like, all people who got here earlier than me, clearly. And I prefer to say that I’m super-influenced stylistically by Rick Ross [and] Jay-Z by way of how I prefer to rap.”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “I used to be a bookworm. Tremendous, tremendous into college. I really like college. I really like studying.”
Me, I’m any individual who can’t be duplicated or replicated or imitated. I really feel like I’m very recent by nature. I rap very historically. I really feel like I’m the precise reverse of what individuals need feminine rappers to be, the place they simply consider that it’s a person spoon-feeding them sh*t. Not ’spherical this bi**h. I’ve at all times been very rambunctious and the kind of individuals, the alternative means, like, black sheep type of particular person.
I’m gonna do what I would like no matter how anyone feels. And I feel it displays on my music. I feel I make music for the self-made spoiled brats, [the] first-born daughters. I’m gonna go and get them alone. I’ve been caring for all people else. It’s time to care for me.
It’s vital [for me to be an XXL Freshman] as a result of I’m a foul bi**h and I rap. And it’s like when you didn’t embrace me, that may have been dumb as a result of who, like, identify a brand new bi**h that be rapping like this proper now? Title her. Wager you possibly can’t. Wager you gained’t. It’s vital for hip-hop. It’s vital for ladies in hip-hop. It’s vital for ladies who truly rap who put pen to pad and it’s vital for ladies that appear like me, that sound like me, that discuss like me, that was in my courses. It’s so vital to have that illustration.”
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