Jayla Marie

Since she started to perform at the age of three and began choreographing original dance moves at the age of five, Jayla Marie has just gotten better and better. Her YouTube channel, TheRealJaylaMarie has over 65K subscribers and over 4 million views. She writes/rewrites the lyrics to popular hip hop songs to make them more suitable for children and teens. Some of her most popular videos like ‘Im That Kid,’ a remix to Omarion's song ‘I'm up’, or the fan favorite JMix of the Drake song ‘One Dance’bear testament to the kind of talent she possesses.She has even worked with famous hip hop artists like LL Cool J, Kid Ink, and Fabolous. Jayla Marie became a household name after she stared competing in the season 2 of the reality show ‘The Rap Game’, produced by the Hip Hop recording artist Jermaine Dupri. In the show her performances have been praised by renowned rappers like P. Diddy and Snoop Dogg.

It’s her talent and the fact that she is standing her ground so fiercely in a genre dominated largely by men that make Jayla special.She has a magical voice and a unique style of infusing singing and harmonizing in her rap songs to give them that slight R&B feel. Her quirky sense of fashion and her cool personality shinealongside her sweet nature. She is not just a fame-hungry tween and her charity work on behalf of the WorldStarHipHop Foundation is proof that she is determined to contribute to social issues as well.

Jayla Marie’s stint in the reality show ‘The Rap Game’ Season two has landed her in some controversies of late. In the episode ‘Rep Your City’ the contestants were directed to come up with a rap about their city. Nia Kay, a 14-year-old contestant from Chicago accused Jayla of not writing her own material and insisted that her father had written her material. Jayla was also seen to intimidate her fellow contestants in ‘The Rap Game’as she was able to build a better image due to her prior experience in modeling.