- 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 everyone who’s on that deserves it, labored laborious, did what they needed to do, they usually put they steps in. Anyone who’s not on the checklist, 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 everyone. I believe anyone out of New York, particularly the ladies. I can’t be a younger Black lady from New York and never identify Lil’ Kim, Cunning Brown, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, like, everyone who got here earlier than me, clearly. And I prefer to say that I’m super-influenced stylistically by Rick Ross [and] Jay-Z when it comes to how I prefer to rap.”
- AS A FRESHMAN IN HIGH SCHOOL: “I used to be a bookworm. Tremendous, tremendous into college. I like college. I 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 only 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 sort of individual.
I’m gonna do what I need no matter how anyone feels. And I believe it displays on my music. I believe 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 everyone else. It’s time to deal with me.
It’s essential [for me to be an XXL Freshman] as a result of I’m a foul bi**h and I rap. And it’s like in case you didn’t embrace me, that might have been dumb as a result of who, like, identify a brand new bi**h that be rapping like this proper now? Title her. Guess you may’t. Guess you received’t. It’s essential for hip-hop. It’s essential for girls in hip-hop. It’s essential for girls who truly rap who put pen to pad and it’s essential for women that appear to be me, that sound like me, that discuss like me, that was in my courses. It’s so essential to have that illustration.”
Watch Maiya The Don’s 2024 XXL Freshman Freestyle
Maiya The Don 2024 xxl freshman freestyle
Rising rhymer Maiya The Don is concentrated on the artwork of rhyming and making an affect along with her bars. The 22-year-old Brooklyn native creates songs for the women, the “self-made brats” and “first-born daughters,” who’ve regarded out for everybody however themselves, and now it is time all of them put themselves first. Massive Don’s confidence is clearly evident in her persona in addition to her rhymes. She brings her daring vitality to her 2024 XXL Freshman freestyle. With bars like, “B**ch, I am actually the largest,” it goes with out saying that she’s right here to remain. Or in her phrases, “Get on the practice or get hit by one.”
The 2024 XXL Freshman could also be a rap newcomer, however her abilities show she’s obtained expertise. “Have a look at the stats, if I am a rookie, she’s an novice,” Maiya rhymes. She’s unfazed by any stressors that include the profession path she’s chosen. A path that she’s at all times desired to have since watching BET’s 106 & Park again within the day along with her brother, who has related rap aspirations. She takes her craft critically, noting that she would not need assistance along with her pen sport. “Child, I am the dime, so the stress by no means shook me,” Maiya spits. “I heard a reference observe, so no, you h*es won’t ever push me/B*ches obtained ni**as in author’s rooms simply to speak about they pu**y.”
Maiya The Don’s worth is rising and she or he’s placing tax on it with intelligent wordplay. “I am out-rapping b**ches, that is with or with out the numbers,” Maiya raps. “You need my throwaways?/It’s going to price you want, seven figures/Ya proper toe and ya liver/They assume I got here outta nowhere/Lil b**ch, I been good/Clean circulate and supply, I am a midwife/B**ches’ physique depend and internet value/It is me, myself and I/I do not respect the remaining.”
Whoever wasn’t accustomed to Maiya The Don prior, she’s assured that her expertise will acquire her a spot on anybody’s favourite rappers checklist. “Cash talks, so watch out who I converse to/I been planning to take a seat on M’s like Evisu/Title a brand new b**ch that be rapping like this/I guess this freestyle alone may have you scrappin’ ya checklist, b**ch,” she provides.
It is evident Maiya takes a web page from the lengthy lineage of revered feminine rappers when listening to her bars. “I prefer to say I’m influenced by everyone,” Maiya tells XXL. “I believe anyone out of New York, particularly the ladies. I can’t be a younger Black lady from New York and never identify Lil’ Kim, Cunning Brown, Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, like, everyone who got here earlier than me, clearly. And I prefer to say that I’m super-influenced stylistically by Rick Ross [and] Jay-Z when it comes to how I prefer to rap.”
Following the success of her breakout single, “Telfy,” in 2022, Maiya has garnered over 7 million performs on Spotify and practically 3 million views on YouTube for the observe. She’s locked in a number of collaborations with Flo Milli together with “Immodest” alongside Lola Brooke. She additionally has a tune of her personal with Flo, titled “Costly,” and appeared on the Atlanta artist’s observe “Something Flows” with 2Rare and Kari Fake. Maiya’s different bangers embrace “Dusties,” “Luv U Higher” and “In Your Fingers” that includes Ty Dolla $ign, all of which seem on her debut mixtape, Sizzling Commodity, which arrived final yr.
Final winter, Maiya showcased her expertise within the all-women cypher, curated by Latto.
Because the highlight continues to shine on her, the New York native is standing in her personal individuality. “Me, I’m any individual who can’t be duplicated or replicated or imitated,” she maintains. “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 only consider that it’s a person spoon-feeding them sh*t. Not ’spherical this b**ch. I’ve at all times been very rambunctious and the kind of individuals, the alternative means, like, black sheep sort of individual.”
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