You're just fabulous looking!
Look at your hair.
Thank you!
I love that.
Thank you!
That's adorable.
So you've been rapping for how long now?
I've been rapping since I was 5, such a long time.
Because you're 11 now.
Yeah.
So it's kind of like you've been doing it so long,
your whole life almost.
And how did you learn how to freestyle, though?
I learned how to freestyle from my dad.
He's an artist in the industry, and I
watched him a lot in the studio and it
inspired me to write also.
I see, I know.
But freestyling is hard, right?
Yeah, I mean, it takes practice.
I'm still practicing.
I'm going to get better at it.
You just do what you have off the dome.
OK.
Off the dome.
Do you have something off the dome for me right now?
Yeah.
OK, everybody in the crowd get up and clap your hands.
[AUDIENCE CLAPS] I wanna go like this though, OK?
Let's go live, yeah.
But this time, I got Ellen on my side, yeah.
Put your hands in the air, uh huh,
keep your eyes on me, uh huh.
Late late in the house, get the whole world open with me,
uh huh.
I'm just like a tear, uh huh, I make that clear, uh huh.
Don't matter who's paying.
There's no lay lays in here.
That was great.
That may have been a mistake to ask them
to clap, because some white people were missing the beat.
There were some white people that
were very, very off in there.
You gotta read the room.
So, do you do you ever do rap battles?
Yes, I really do with my dad over there.
Oh, really?
Of course, he always wins because he's better than me.
He just raps about all types of stuff.
We rap about all types of stuff, food, pots and pans,
butterflies, it don't even matter.
We just rap.
That's so cool.
But, of course, he's better because he's
been doing it longer.
But once you do it for a little while,
I mean, it's going to be--
Who are your favorite singers and rappers?
Well my favorites-- well, rappers, I'm
gonna say Migos, Cardi B, Lil Baby, Gunna,
and all time favorite, Rihanna.
[AUDIENCE CHEERS]
Yeah.
See, they all love Rihanna.
All right, so you're going to perform for us right now,
right?
Of course.
All right.
Let's do this.
[APPLAUSE]
[MUSIC - LAY LAY]
Ooh, yeah.
Check out the deuce, Lay Lay is in it.
Yeah I can flow.
Go for some minutes
I'm on the go.
They say go.
Spit a sentence.
Drink juice.
Eat some spinach.
Bully the game.
Dennis the Menace.
Take the beat, but I didn't invent it.
Copy their flow, it's easy to mimic.
Aye, ain't got time, ain't got time.
I'm on my grind.
Catch me in the kitchen making slime.
Hey, pink, green, blue slime.
Red, yellow, orange slime.
Sell them all and I'll give you a dime.
Hey, yeah, they know I'm the truth.
Oh, I ain't even gone in the booth.
Oh, I get loose like a tooth, oh.
They get ghosted like poof, ooh
Oh, I drip so like juice.
Oh, I'mma just throw up the deuce.
Oh.
Hey.
Lil lip gloss on my lip
Hey, I drip beer like a ship.
Oh, better say y'all must dip.
Hey, I'm in the A like tip.
I’m in your ear, Q-TIP
You work hard for the chips, yeah.
I just flow on the whip.
[APPLAUSE]
Oh, come on, that's so cool.
Thank you, thank you!
That's so cool!
Thank you!
I don't know if anyone has ever done that.
Did you just come up with that?
That's so cool that you did that.
Thank you, thank you.
This is amazing.
So, you're the youngest female rapper ever
to be signed to a record label and your album comes out today.
Yes!
Go get it!
On all platforms, all digital platforms.
Go copy, uh huh.
I'm serious, everybody, go get it.
All right, she's serious.
All right, Lay Lay.
So, we told Rihanna that you love her.
She sent you a little something, OK?
A little gift from Rihanna.
[APPLAUSE]