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It's clear that Mac has got talents that you can’t quite count on one hand (dancing, choreography, writing, performing, rapping, self-directing videos… the list goes on). She'd taken dancing as far as she could at the time.

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But just as the pandemic kicked off, she decided to pursue music full time.

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Before then, she had a professional dance career – which saw her tour as a backup dancer and appear in adverts and music videos, including Stormzy’s “ Vossi Bop”. She first came onto the scene in 2020 with “ Skippin'”, a bravado-packed debut where she showcases her trademark lyrical dexterity for the first time (“ Nah, you must be mistaken, fam, I'm not your bitch / That combination don't fit”). That’s what the OG fans are saying.”Īnd Mac does have OG fans in their numbers. “From the ground work I was doing, it’s deserved. But the people who were there before… they’ve seen me blossom,” she says. “People think success is purely down to the song that went viral. Despite this, Mac is insistent that TikTok isn’t a major part of her trajectory – simply a tool used for self-promotion, like Instagram or Twitter. She’s put music out before, but since “Own Brand Freestyle” went viral, newer fans come up to Mac in the street without mentioning her name, or even the song's name, simply referring to her as “the TikTok girl”. Mac sits somewhere between those two camps. It's also been used nearly 6 million times on TikTok and the dance that Mac – a former professional dancer – choreographed to go with the track, has been made into a Fortnite Emote (meaning players on Fortnite can act it out). In other words: it’s huge. The song, which came out towards the end of last year, has racked up over 80 million streams on Spotify to date. You may have clocked your mates, housemates or even your mum walking around the house singing, “Now I ain’t never been with a baddie / She calm so I add her to the tally” – the infectious refrain from viral track “ Own Brand Freestyle” with Felix the 1st and Finch Fetti. For an artist still at the beginning of her game, she’s clearly booked and very busy.Įven if you’ve not heard the name Dréya Mac before, you’ve definitely heard her voice floating about somewhere. She doesn’t order anything, instead finishing off a phone call and flicking through her phone, asking her manager to send her an address so that she can meet up with someone straight after this. When she does arrive, 20 minutes after we originally planned to meet (she had a meeting with a record label executive which overran), she casually walks up to our table in an unzipped tracksuit with a white tee, pushing chin-length locs out of her face to reveal Airpods.