In just a few days, niche underground rapper Molly Santana has grown millions of listeners after collaborating one song with Drake.
The well-known rapper, Drake, officially dropped a new album called ICEMAN with a total of 18 songs and 3 features of Future, 21 Savage, and Molly Santana. The album dropped on May 15th and was Drake’s first solo studio album since 2023. Within the night it dropped, Molly Santana’s monthly listeners jumped from 500,000 monthly listeners to over 8 million, and five days later was over 12 million. People are finally understanding how strong the power of Drake is.
Molly Santana was included in the song “Ran To Atlanta” also featured with Future. Molly had originally offered to do the song for free and was honored to do a verse for Drake, but he told her “business is business.” She had asked for $100,000 and he insisted it was too low of a cost for a song like this and raised her pay to $500,000. He also promised her a feature on her next project, while getting her the opportunity of meeting Future. Considering Drake is one of the most streamed artists in the world, just one song feature changed her life for good. She is not the only artist who has received the Drake effect, though. Lil Baby, The Weeknd, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Kendrick Lamar, and many others were noticed for their potential and are now all successful, known artists all thanks to Drake.
Molly Santana, real name “Mya Parks” is an American rapper born in Fontana, California. She is known for her pop rap, trap music and for writing her own songs. She became famous in 2021 with her extended album of “Molly’s World” and gained attention with her niche fashion style. She wears layered clothing and jewelry, baggy pants, alternative makeup, and experiments with all distinct colored wigs. She is especially known for being one of the first artists to show off her Japanese culture by wearing black grills, which is a symbol of status among women. People admire her unique grunge style of clothing and her deep voice in her music with a mix of punk, rage, and alternative rap. Mya has had many features in the past with other underground artists like Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, and OsamaSon who helped her gain attention.
Fans are talking all over Instagram and TikTok about how Molly Santana could become a mainstream artist after this one song feature. Over 12 million new fans have listened to her in the past week gaining excessive popularity, which is only going to continue to grow. This also clearly won’t be the end of her business with Drake, with new opportunities to come, and most likely other mainstream artists will collaborate with her. She is already one of the most talked about artists of the year with floods of posts about her. Artists like Astro Codeine Krazy, and anish are posting about Molly going mainstream and how well she did on this album; as well as her carrying the song.
Although Molly was already a well-known artist with 500,000 monthly listeners, she is going to continue to go off the charts with this new Drake collaboration. Fans are eager to see more of her and loved to hear Drake help a smaller artist get on route to becoming a superstar. Fans are impressed with her performance, and she’ll be in topic in the underground world for a while.