Book Lay Bankz for colleges, festivals, fairs, casinos & private shows. Contact Degy Entertainment for booking info.
Lay Bankz is a Philadelphia rapper and singer who works where club music, hip-hop and R&B meet. She arrived on a run of 2023 singles, among them "Woah" and "Na Na Na," then followed with After 7 in 2024, released through Artist Partner Group. Her catalog gets filed under jersey club rap and pop rap, and the club side sets the tempo for the rest of it.
She came up in Southwest Philadelphia. Born Layia Watkins on June 11, 2004, she grew up on Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Aaliyah and Bruno Mars, and those are the pop-vocal reference points behind the way she writes a hook and rides a club rhythm.
Bankz performs as a solo act, and 2024 gave her two markers of where she stands: Billboard named her its R&B/Hip-Hop Rookie of the Month in May, and she was named to that year's XXL Freshman class. She is a strong fit for college programming, festival and fair lineups, casino stages, corporate events and private shows.
