The next 11-year-old viral sensation is here and it contains no yodeling.
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Alaya High, aka Lay Lay, is a freestyling 11-year-old who is
absolute fire while in the car with her dad.
Since posting her first raps, a three-part
series on her Instagram on May 15, the Georgia pre-teen's videos have been viewed
millions of times, and been shared on outlets like HelloGiggles and The Shade
Room. The video was also shared by T.I. who wrote: "Better than all that other fluff
y'all out there blowing up for no reason." And Pittsburgh Steelers running back
Le'Veon Bell said: "Bro she's so hard. Damn." She's been referred to as the "New
Yodeling Kid," referring to 11-year-old Mason Ramsey who's been all over the
place since going viral in April.
But Lay Lay just graduated 5th grade. 5th
grade. And she's very clearly there to take away his crowd. On June 1st she
posted her second freestyle compilation on Instagram to exclamations from fans
like "Baby you got talent!" and "Shawty hard as f*ck".
Anybody else got problems with calling a fifth grader hard as f*ck? Because I don't know if
that's like really where I'd take it, but this little girl is a total savant. I
don't know how she comes up with the raps the way that she does. Maybe it's
time for me to try my hand at freestyling. Here we go.
My name's Martine and I'm on the scene I'm...
Nope.
Though she's new to
Instagram, Lay Lay has apparently been freestyling most of her life, which
hasn't been that long. She's very young. A video on the YouTube channel Fresh
Rebel shows her rapping at only 5 years old.
In an interview with V103 in
Atlanta, she says she got her skills from her dad, rapper Acie High. Wow. Where'd you
learn how to rap at? Just looking at my Dad and how he's been rapping for a long
time. I just recited it and stuff and reciting Eminem's rap since that was just... Oh.
Eminem? Anybody ever consider like being a rap artist is like
something you can pass down in genetics? I think that's so cool. And she didn't
need any preparation to drop some bars on the radio too.
That little girl is
skilled. According to her Dad's snapchat, she's
already meeting with Capitol Records and other major labels.
And it's super cute because her dad's clearly very proud of her.
Also, they sit in the car together when she does most of these, so that must be a
nice bonding moment. His Instagram has photos with her showing off her 5th
grade honor role certificate and even features a mini music video of her in
which he gives her the nickname Cheat Code. Acie and his partner Priceless are
part of the rap duo Aqualeo and they actually made headlines back in February
when they got into a scuffle with Tekashi69 outside LAX Airport.
According to Acie, 69 has a history of harassing women, and on this occasion, he
harassed women that Aqualeo was dropping off at the airport.
So Acie High's got to be
happy that his daughter is trending for being a bonafide online sensation, and a
female badass. So who knows? Maybe in like two years from now she can get into her
very own rap beef. So what do you guys think? Are you looking forward to Lay Lay's
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