According to Genius, she’s Laila Smith, an 18-year-old from Brooklyn, New York. She has, to date, released one EP and a handful of other songs, including the boastful “Like That!” ...

For a then 14-year-old Laila Smith, it was GarageBand. Experimenting with Apple’s free music production software turned into posting her first song, “Like That,” to TikTok in 2023 as Laila!.