Young M.A's “OOOUUU” instantly catapulted her to the head of a new crop of MCs coming out of New York. While finishing up her highly anticipated debut album, the MC created an exclusive playlist for Black History Month 2019. “I was nine when I realized I wanted to rap,” she tells Apple Music. "I never wanted to do anything else and my mom definitely supported me. She bought me a karaoke machine, books, tapes, CDs, whatever I needed to work on my craft. She was always playing different types of music, too, which kept me well-rounded and topical with my own music.”