Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Mapei

29 year old singer, rapper and song writer Mapei is one to look out for in the music industry this year, move aside Iggy.

Here’s a list of things you may have or may not have known about Mapei:

1. Mapei was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where she lived until approximately age ten.

2. Mapei moved to Brooklyn at age eighteen, working as a bartender in a Swedish restaurant in New York’s Chinatown neighborhood.

3. Mapei released her debut EP as a rapper on Downtown Records in 2009. After the release of The Cocoa Butter Diaries, Mapei began work on her debut album with Frenchelectronic duo Justice.

4. Mapei’s “Don’t Wait” premiered on the website of influential magazine The Fader in October 2013.The track went viral immediately, repeatedly reaching #1 on the Hype Machine charts.

5. Mapei  born Jaqueline Cummings, she scored her first underground hit with “Video Vixens,” whose wild video became a minor YouTube sensation in 2008. 

6. Mapei wrote the theme song for Shake It Up Disney.

7. Mapei dreams to one day write for Kendrick Lamar.

8. It took Mapei an hour to write her song “Old friend indeed” and 2 hours to record it.

9. Mapei has an unreleased album only because she didn’t like it.

10. Mapei tried joining the choir at church when she was younger and her voice wasn’t accepted very well.