Myaap Explains Her Credit Card Statement
The Milwaukee rap princess talks through recent purchases, including designer clothes, dinner for her girlfriend, and a bustdown Tinkerbell pendant
Credit History is an interview series where we ask our favorite artists to comb through their credit card statements and tell us about what they bought, from the necessary to the frivolous to the outlandish.
Milwaukee raper Myaap didn’t always know music was her calling. While growing up in Wisconsin, she spent her days freestyling with her brother while aspiring to be either a backup dancer or a mortician. “My momma used to help a lot of people, so that inspired me at first,” she says over the phone while driving through her current home city of Atlanta. “But I also used to watch a lotta movies and I heard they be makin’ money, so that also pushed me.” But the formaldehyde would ultimately have to wait. In 2023, two songs she recorded while attending trade school—”HTS” and “Party Crackin’”—both went viral on TikTok, and later that year, another single, “Getting To It,” impacted even harder.
After putting out a handful of projects and opening for Detroit rapper Veeze on tour, Myaa’s biggest taste of success came from the release of her 2025 single “Fairy,” which set her hometown’s trademark low-end clap drums against a swelling string sample. It exploded to the tune of millions of streams and thousands of dance challenge posts across social media. I could barely step outside last summer without hearing that song blasting from a car stereo or from someone’s phone speakers. Her latest mixtape, Pixie Dust, aims to capitalize on that next-level ubiquity with a full serving of whimsical slappers. From classic Milwaukee-style cuts like “Beep Beep” or “Reaper” to moodier tracks like “Mamacita” or (my personal favorite) “Blicky Blicky,” there’s something for everyone looking to get their fairy on.
Myaa’s profile has grown exponentially in such a short time, but she’s still moving at her own pace. Her recent purchases reflect her new adopted home of Atlanta, her love for cooking for her girlfriend, and embracing her still-budding stardom without being too consumed by the vortex.
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