CULTURETECHLENSThat Girl Lay Lay
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07010 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5744.
That Girl Lay Lay, born Alaya High on 28 January 2007 in Houston, Texas, is an American rapper and actress. She began posting rap videos on YouTube at age six, and her freestyle videos — notably over BlocBoy JB's "Shoot" — built her following. At eleven she was reported as the youngest female African American rapper signed to a major record deal, with Empire Distribution; her debut single "Go, Lay Lay, Go" and debut album Tha Cheat Code followed in 2018. Nickelodeon signed her to an overall deal in 2020, and she starred as Lay Lay in the sitcom That Girl Lay Lay (premiered 23 September 2021; ended 20 March 2024). She has a book series with Scholastic and a voice credit in Vampirina: Teenage Vampire in an episode aired 19 September 2025. No Billboard chart peak was sourced for her recordings, and none is asserted.
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That Girl Lay Lay, born Alaya High on 28 January 2007 in Houston, Texas, is an American rapper and actress. She began posting rap videos on YouTube at age six, and her freestyle videos — notably over BlocBoy JB's "Shoot" — built her following.
The record
- Also known as: Alaya High, Lay Lay
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no That Girl Lay Lay entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5744 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 221 (R&B Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure (Houston). Vital status: LIVING — voice credit in Vampirina: Teenage Vampire, episode aired 19 September 2025. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Her Nickelodeon sitcom ran two seasons (2021–2024); episode counts conflict — 41 episodes credited to High (IMDb) versus 47 listed for the series (TV Insider) — shown, not merged. No Billboard chart peak was sourced in this pass; none is claimed. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5744-that-girl-lay-lay.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )
Sources
- Wikipedia, "Alaya High" — born 28 January 2007, Houston; Empire deal at 11; Tha Cheat Code (2018); Scholastic series — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaya_High (build store)
- TV Insider person page — birth date/place; Nickelodeon series record — https://www.tvinsider.com/people/that-girl-lay-lay/ (primary source · build store)
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