Flyana Boss Talks Kanekalon, Quitting Their Jobs and How They Chose Their Name
variety.comSelome Hailu Before they were sprinting through Disneyland to the tune of their own viral hit, the girls of Flyana Boss were making rent by selling (legal) weed. “We were budtenders,” says Folayan, one half of the duo that blew up in June after their song “You Wish” achieved major traction on social media.
Her partner-in-crime, Bobbi LaNea, finishes the thought: “Same dispensary, different locations. A month and a half ago, we were like, ‘What are we going to do?’ We stopped working in January, and this is the first time it’s felt legit, like we won’t have to get regular jobs again.” They’ve been making music together for four years, since first becoming friends at Hollywood’s Musician’s Institute. “It was literally my first day, my first class, and I saw her cute self.
I was interested in her and what she was about ever since then,” LaNea says, emblematic of the brand they’ve built with their music since then.
As evidenced by their lyrics — “Me and my bestie are the same, like a synonym,” Folayan raps at the end of a verse of “You Wish” — Flyana Boss is a twosome before anything else.
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