Myaap pulled up to the Genius office to break down her viral hit “Fairy.” Produced by ChristianGetBizzy, the track took off online thanks to the catchy dance and hook that’s racked up hundreds of thousands of impressions, with stars like Madonna, Doechii, and JT hopping on the trend. On today’s episode of Verified, the rising Milwaukee rapper walks us through how the song came together, what being a fairy means to her, which Disney movie helped inspire the iconic hook, and more.
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00:00My name is Maya P. I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, born in the race.
00:05One day I was just in my room and I made a song off my phone and I posted it on TikTok
00:10and then I just seen it blew up the next day.
00:13So then I just started to take it more seriously.
00:23My producer, Christian Gets Busy, he sends me like 10 beats a week and whichever one
00:28catches my eye, I'll go record it the same day he sends me.
00:32Well, I ain't gonna lie, when I was recording, I was like, I wanna stop, I wanna move on to
00:38a different song.
00:39But then my girlfriend was like, no, you have to keep doing this song, keep working on this
00:43song, cause this gonna be one of the ones, so I was like, yeah, I'm gonna finish it.
00:48So when I finished the full song, it sounded good.
00:51And then right after I left the studio, I posted it on TikTok.
00:55I've seen a lot of my favorite artists that I really look up to using the sound and it's
01:00just mind blowing.
01:10The full definition of a fairy to me is like a baddie who's always on her stuff.
01:16A magical baddie.
01:18That's what it mean to me.
01:25I was in the car with my girlfriend on the way to the studio and I was listening to the
01:34beat and she told me like, this beat sound familiar.
01:36I'm like, you heard this beat before?
01:38Where it come from?
01:39She was like, it was a trend.
01:41And it was like a lady from Maleficent.
01:43She was like, she was a fairy.
01:45She showed me that TikTok and I like recreated that into my own way.
01:50And I was just like saying the hook on the way to the studio.
01:54I was like, she was a fairy with a fatty on my daddy.
01:58She was like, yeah, you gotta record this.
02:01So I recorded that when I got to the studio and it took me about like 20 minutes to make
02:05the full song.
02:06This shit smack.
02:07Let me see.
02:08Touch your toast door and back.
02:09Make it clap.
02:10Bow.
02:11Yup.
02:12Don't stop.
02:13Stop.
02:14True religion.
02:15Pants are my true religion.
02:16Crop top.
02:17Big Maya P.
02:18Bitches mad.
02:19I'm calling guap guap.
02:20Still to this day, I love true religion.
02:21Fashion is important when you're artists because a lot of people might like how you dress and
02:26might want to use the inspos and stuff.
02:29That's important for me.
02:30Wap, wap.
02:31Gap, gap, wap, wap.
02:34Wham.
02:35Gap, gap, wap, wap.
02:36Wham.
02:37Gap, gap.
02:38Wap, wap.
02:39Wham.
02:40Gap, gap.
02:41Yup, yup.
02:42Wham.
02:43Gap, gap.
02:44Don't stop.
02:45Wham.
02:46Damn.
02:47Damn.
02:48Yup.
02:49Bow.
02:50Bow.
02:51Yup.
02:52Bow.
02:53Yup.
02:54Bow.
02:55Bow.
02:56When we hyping somebody up and they dancing, in Milwaukee we would say bow or yup, yup.
03:00I just say that to get people moving, like moving and grouping.
03:04I just freestyled that part.
03:17I'm big but people see me as little because I'm little and small.
03:21But I'm big because I do big stuff.
03:23Little bum ass boy.
03:24Who the fuck is you?
03:25Brody got that dog in the back like he Scooby Doo.
03:28Got her nigga beating up my Jack Booga Coochie Doo.
03:30Bitches always in my fucking business but they pussy loose.
03:33People always in my business but never worry about what they got going on in their own.
03:37Why you worried about me and you doing all of this?
03:41Bitches be junkies.
03:42Why you sipping juice?
03:43I'm the real Maya P.
03:44All you bitches dudes.
03:45Yeah, a lot of girls in my city, I feel like they trying to steal what I got going on.
03:52I'm Maya P and there's a lot of P's in my city.
03:55And there's a lot of low end rappers and all of a sudden ever since that I came out.
04:00So that's why I said that because I feel like I'm the originator of all that.
04:04And people just copying because they see that it's working for me and they want it to work
04:10for them too.
04:11But it don't work like that.
04:12You can't copy or be like somebody.
04:14You have to be yourself.
04:15That's how I got here today.
04:17What keeps me motivated to be about my paper is really feeding myself and hustling for
04:40myself.
04:41I think Milwaukee beats compliment me the most because I'm originally from there and
04:49we use a lot of claps in the beats.
04:52A Milwaukee type beat is like, you know when you hear the claps in the beats?
04:57Those are Milwaukee type beats in the drums, the hard drums, in the 808s.
05:03So it's like easier for me to rap on those type of beats because I'm already used to that
05:08and that's where I come from.