Los Angeles-based rap duo Flyana Boss have recently taken over various social media platforms with an unusual approach. Their short videos usually start with Dallas-native Folayan running through everything ranging from Disneyland to a random In-N-Out Burger joint rapping playful lyrics like “Hello, Christ? (What's up?) I'm 'bout to sin again / I said, "I love you" to that man, but I'm not feelin' him” before Detroit-native Bobbi spits, “I be Michael Phelps, all the brand deals that I'm swimmin' in / You can call me Dr. Evil 'cause I got many men.”

Those videos are cute, fun, and intense, and feature overwhelmingly cool free-spirited Black women.

Since being released a month ago, the single “You Wish” has bubbled into a national sensation. Not only have the videos earned over 368 million views and become the #1 viral track right on Spotify, but even ultra-popular influencers like comedian KevOnStage have attempted “the run.” Not bad for a group who have been pushing together for the past years with consistent social media posts and other music releases, including “Miss Me” alongside “Hot Tea.”

Speaking with BET.com, Flyana Boss discusses the grind until now, the success of “You Wish” being defended by Missy Elliott.

BET.com: You both met each other in music school in Los Angeles before becoming a group. What attracted you both to each other enough to decide to become a duo and describe those early bonding moments as creatives?

Folayan:  We both thought we were cute. I thought Bobbi was the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Bobbi: I thought Folayan was the cutest thing ever. I really thought she looked like Rudy Huxtable when I first met her. I was like, oh my God, she's so cute.

Folayan: We fit each other's weird black girl vibes. One day, Bobby was working on a project for herself. She showed me some of the songs and I was like, we should do this together. Then, we started doing it together.

Bobbi: And we've been together ever since.

BET.com: Also your name is inspired by Diana Ross, where did that idea for a name come from?

Bobbi: We were brainstorming one day when we decided to officially become a duo. We were brainstorming back and forth with names and ideas. I really liked the way Nipsey Hussle was a play on Nipsey Russell, the old movie star. I wanted to come up with a name that could be a play on something.

Folayan: Then she went to sleep after agreeing to sleep on it. She wakes up in the morning and sees this poster of Diana Ross in her room and goes, Flyana Boss. Then she texted it to me and I said I love it.

BET.com: At this point, “You Wish” is one of the most viral songs out at the moment. Do you remember the moment of putting that song together?

Bobbi: It just came out like that. We worked with a writer this session and normally, we don't work with writers because they stagnate our creativity. If we do bring in writers, we just like them to write a hook or something and then we’ll write our verses together or separately. This time, we just brought in this guy named Ellrod. We did one hook on this song and then started working on “You Wish” with our producer, Marky Style.

He played the beat and all three of us started yelling out crazy shit. Folayan would say something, then I would say something, and then Ellrod would say something. We wrote the first two verses and then we had a hook that we kind of wrote for it but we scrapped it. Then we just came up with the “Get like me, nah you wish” line and then the song was done. We probably finished that song in two hours, I think. It was really magic the way it just came out.

BET.com: What’s your strategy when navigating the overpopulated world of social media and why do you think the “You Wish” videos caught on the way they did?

Folayan: Two years ago, we decided that we were going to just post on TikTok every day.

Bobbi: It didn’t matter what it was. Before we were actually making content specifically for TikTok, I would just take stuff out of my camera roll and just put it on TikTok and Folayan would do the same. Then one day, we had this song called “Miss Me” and Folayan just rapped her verse to it on Facetime or Zoom and that was the first little moment we had on TikTok at around 7,000 views within the first couple of hours which was a lot at the time.

Folayan: Then it started bubbling. I think with “You Wish,” it’s also because it’s a good song too.

Bobbi: It’s a combination of things. We started working with our videographer Evan Blum in December and we did the “Miss Me” video with him. That spiked “Miss Me” too because he’s such a brilliant person with his videography and cinematography and editing. That was another level that took our content up. When it comes to “You Wish,” Folayan had this idea to run while we were rapping the song but we didn’t exactly know how it was going to go.

She wanted Evan to be in the car and we ran after him. I think initially Folayan wanted both of us to be in the shot the whole time but then Evan was like, I can run. Then we came up with the idea that Folayan would go out first and then I would jump in with my verse. That’s been the formula and we’ve been running ever since.

BET.com: Recently, Missy Elliot came to your defense in regard to criticisms about your viral videos being called repetitive. How does it feel to have that level of respect from an established veteran?

Folayan: Unbelievable. Since we were kids, we’ve been looking up to Missy Elliot. So that happening was like; is this real? What’s happening? It feels like a dream.

Bobbi: She’s an icon and we love her so much. It’s just wild. She came back to the critics with a “back in my day” post. She didn’t have to do that. Just wow.

BET.com: With the shelf life of viral content being relatively short, is there any anxiety over your follow-up plans and if so how do you keep those in check?

Folayan: It’s crazy cause our producer Marky Style keeps having to remind us that the song has not even been out for a whole month yet. So we’re just riding the wave right now and we’re really busy.

Bobbi: We’re constantly making music though a little less than we like right now cause everybody wants a piece of us right now. However, we’re constantly making music and have a lot of music in the vault. I don’t think we’re thinking about our next hit. We have a bonafide hit right now. So, I think we can do whatever we want to do.

Folayan: Instead of “You Wish” making us feel anxious about what will come up next, we feel like it is the perfect catapult into a world we want to create for ourselves and our listeners. The next thing is just going to be completely us.

BET.com: What goes through your head when you hear the “industry plant” label about you all?

Bobbi: Where’s the soil? We want to grow. Water us and let us grow.

Folayan: I would literally like to ask Twitter, what exactly is an industry plant? I don’t understand it when people say it. We’ve been working. You can see our social media pages and that we’ve been posting for a long time. As long as we have, we’ve been really working on this. I don’t understand what any of that means. It’s really funny.

Bobbi: It’s a weird term too because neither of us are Nepo babies or anything. We had to fight to get into the music industry. I think being called an “industry plant” is a compliment because we just make it look easy but it’s been a lot of hard work. We’ve been doing millions of views for weeks.

Folayan: I get it too. How are these girls going mega-viral like this? We don’t know, either.