Maiya The Don is a real scholar of the sport. She represents the hip-hop legacy of Brooklyn to the fullest with a robust pen recreation and pristine punchlines. Maiya’s first style of hip-hop mainstream success arrived within the type of her 2022 Sisqo-sampled monitor “Telfy.” The boldness-inducing anthem has raked in over 7 million streams and Spotify. Her debut mixtape, Sizzling Commodity, has been met with cosigns from the likes of Lil’ Kim, Ty Dolla $ign and Mariah Carey, amongst others.
The BK MC comes by means of XXL’s The Break Dwell for an interview about her new single “Imply It,” being hand-picked by Latto for the first-ever all-female XXL Cypher Lab, the present state of lyricism in rap and extra. Watch the interview under.
Age: 22
Reppin’: Brooklyn
Instagram: @maiyathedonn
TikTok: @maiyathedon
Notable Releases: Songs: “Telfy,” “Dusties,” Flo Milli’s “Immodest” that includes Maiya The Don and Lola Brooke; Mixtapes: Sizzling Commodity
Label: Impartial
At the moment Working On: Untitled undertaking dropping in 2024.
Influenced by: “I might say all people. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Missy Elliott, Drake. I simply love all people.”
When did you first begin rapping?
“I began rapping severely like two years in the past. Earlier than then, I might do little raps to battle my brother. We might freestyle and rap battle. We used to do stuff like that whereas watching the Freestyle Fridays on 106 & Park.”
What are your ideas on why ladies are dominating hip-hop the way in which they’re?
“I feel what it’s now’s that we’re simply lastly getting the respect that we deserve. For a very long time, ladies in hip-hop had been used as an adjunct. Girls had been used as like, ‘Here is the intercourse attraction, this is how we’ll get ladies to take heed to our music.’ Now, it is about us being the music. We have now one thing to say.”
What’s your inventive course of behind writing your rhymes?
“I write. I discover that writing a verse, you are extra intentional. One of the best issues come out of placing pen to pad and actually placing thought behind it. Going within the studio and simply freestyling, it is cool, however not all people is Hov and I would like all people to get out of that pattern and begin rapping once more.”
Watch the total interview under.
Observe Maiya The Don on Spotify.
Standouts:
“Imply It”
“Telfy”
“Dusties”
“Reality Is Freestyle”
Sizzling Commodity
