Laura Adeola Adegbite (born October 5, 1996),[1] best known as Shaybo and nicknamed "The Queen of the South," is a Nigerian-born English rapper.
After realizing that she needed to spend her life doing what she loved most, she quit her social working job and started making music again, dedicating her days and nights to rapping.
These projects are accompanied by a host of singles including those performed by Shaybo herself as well as those featuring other singers and rappers from the US, UK, and Nigeria alike.
[2] While living in Nigeria, she attended boarding school in the nation's capital city, Abuja.
[5] During high school, Brown would often spend her free time with her friends hanging out in Catford Frontline or a local Chicken Shop.
By the time she was 14, she was in a music group, but that endeavor was cut short when her mother told her she had to go to college and earn a degree.
Following this freestyle, listeners of her music continued to refer to her as Shay'bo, which is how she acquired her official stage name.
Author Journee Bernard acknowledges that "There wasn’t as much of a sustainable infrastructure in place for independent MCs in UK rap in 2013."
[9] Following this break, Brown's released single "Ya Dun Know" which blew up and fully announced her return to music.
[10] As Brown continued to release music, she acquired a plethora of recognition and acclaim for her unique voice and contribution to the rap scene in the UK.
During the summer of 2020, she performed a Daily Duppy freestyle for GRMDaily and released two singles: Dobale and Come for Shay featuring Snap Capone.
She was inspired by the main character who, as she says, "started off naive and then she managed to overcome her pain and her trauma and become a strong woman who's very strong-willed, and who knows how to sit in a room full of men and still get her point across.
[6] Shaybo has cited Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, and Nicki Minaj as her greatest musical inspirations.
After university, she helped survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, vulnerable children, and domestic violence victims.