Shya L’amour is an American hip-hop artist and rapper mostly known for her relationship with fellow hip hop artist, Offset which started in 2014. She has garnered quite a massive social media following and a strong fan base over the years she has been active in the music scene.
Known for her singles such as ‘Hold it Down’, ‘Lookin A Pickle’, and ‘Paper Baby’, she however only got her real breakthrough after remixing Nicki Minaj’s ‘Barbie Dream’ and it was reposted and made famous by bloggers. She also remixed ‘Doo Wop’ by Lauryn Hill which increased her fame in the music scene and cemented her place in the music industry.
Who Is Shya L’armour
She was born on the 18th of November 1988 in Tampa, Florida, United States of America but is originally a Puerto-Rican. Her real name is ‘Nicole Maria Alagrin’. Her mother is named Nilsa Santos Algarin and she has two brothers one of who goes by the name Orlando Vazquez.
Not much is known about the 36 year old. Not even as much as schools attended or her family life and background. Even with her huge social media presence, her past life before the fame seems to be carefully tucked and safe.
Here Are 10 Things About Shya L’amour You Need To Know
1. She Was In A Band
Shya L’amour was former ‘Migos’ band member. This was before her career as a solo artist and rapper started. The band consisted of her, Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff.
2. Shya L’amour Started Her Career With Remix Songs
She developed an interest in remixing songs as she began her career by downloading popular songs and then slowing the music down to create her own remix of the songs. She would later burn these remixes and give them to her friends.
3. Shya L’amour Started Rap Music In 2011
Shya began her career in rap music in 2011 with the release of her first single titled ‘Lil’ Momma Badd’. In 2017, she released the official music video for her hit song, ‘Paper Baby’.
4. Her Relationship With Kiari Kendrell Cephus AKA ‘Offset’
Kiari Kendrell Cephus also known as ‘Offset’ had a brief relationship with Shya in 2014. Their relationship wasn’t a typical relationship although they shared intimacy for a couple of months but unfortunately, it didn’t last for long.
By the next year, they had already moved on until Shya realized she was pregnant.
5. Shya L’amour Has A Daughter For Offset
In 2015, Shya gave birth to Kalea Marie Cephus, Offset’s daughter who Offset initially denied. The baby girl is Offset’s first child and although there was the initial controversy, Offset has come to accept his daughter and loves her dearly.
6. Shya L’amour Cries Out For Child Support
Shya had to seek help from the court to get offset to pay child support. Shya sued Offset in 2019 in an effort to get child support for their baby girl. Like it wasn’t enough that she had to insist to be paid child support, the Covid 19 pandemic hit and terribly affected Shya who still insists that Offset offers her ‘limited financial support’ to take care of their daughter.
7. Shya L’amour Is A Youtube Sensation
Shya has a YouTube channel where she uploads many of her music videos. She has 10.2k subscribers as of June 2021 and has thousands of views on her videos put up on her channel. The video of her remix of Laurel Hills ‘Doo Wop’ gathered views counting in millions.
8. Does Shya Only Do Music?
Thankfully, no! Shya isn’t solely dependent on music. Due to the fact that she has quite a good number of followers on her social media handles, Shya has established herself as a brand influencer on Instagram where she has over 190k followers. Not only is she a powerful brand influencer, but she also appears on ‘Drop City’ podcasts.
Shya also has a clothing line to her name which she calls ‘Pretty and Paid’.
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9. She Defended Her Cousin Quavo
Quavo is Shya’s cousin, member of ‘Migos’ group, rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer and when TMZ publication released a video of Quavo having an altercation with his former girlfriend, Saweetie, Shya came to Quavo’s defense.
The video showed Quavo snatching his ex-girlfriend’s phone, pushing her, and not helping her, and some social media users accused the rapper of domestic violence. However, Shya insisted that it wasn’t domestic violence and that the video put out was incomplete.
10. Shya’s Relationship With Cardi B, Offsets Wife
In an interview with TMZ on the 3rd of March 2019, Shya admits that Cardi B has helped Offset grow tremendously. She believes that since his marriage to Cardi B, he has become a better person and this is because Cardi B has a really good heart.
However, in recent times, Shya has dissed Cardi a couple of times in the past. She even released a song dissing fellow rapper and wife of her ex-boyfriend accusing her of threatening to slap/smack her. Although she captioned the video ‘Not a diss’, many people believe otherwise.
During the period Cardi announced a divorce from Offset, Shya, and Offset began to spend a lot of time together and Shya even made a post on Instagram about gaining ‘a lost one’ possibly referring to Offset.
Shya L’amour’s Scandal With Offset
The relationship between Shya and her baby father, Offset seem to have never been really smooth beginning from their relationship which did not last for so long to the drama of her revelation of their daughter who Offset initially denied and the follow-up drama which ensued when Shya accused Offset of being ignorant about his fatherly duties for their daughter.
She said Offset began to avoid her when he got hooked with his next lover and was expecting a child with her. He blocked her number and also on social media so she wasn’t able to reach out to him so she had to reach out to his mother through Facebook. Offset admitted during his interview with TMZ that as soon as he saw the picture of the daughter on Facebook, he knew she was his but he had to be certain about it.
The list about their back and forth seems to keep growing by the year because as of 2020, Shya cried out, again about not receiving enough financial support for their daughter from Offset.
An in-depth look into this scandal began after Shya gave birth to her daughter for Offset in 2015. While Offset initially denied having a child with Shya and even knowing her, he released a song titled ‘Father of 4’ where he addressed the issue surrounding his relationship with his daughter and baby mama.
Shya fired back at Offset after listening to the song and accused him of choosing to be ignorant about their child’s birth and narrating how she had to convince him to take a DNA test to prove the girl was his. The paternity as well as issue of child support was addressed in court proceedings and at a point, Shya had to notify Offset about the court case through a newspaper publication because Offset was avoiding her.
There was also a case of a certain ‘love triangle’ which hit the internet after the news of Offset and Cardi B’s divorce. The news speculated that Offset was back with his baby mama, Shya but the rumors were put down after Offset and Cardi were seen together a month later.
Also, sometime in 2018 while Cardi and Offset secretly got married and she was pregnant with Kulture, Shya said Offset asked her for sex before he would pay child support. She leaked chats of Offset begging her for sex when the issue about him not paying for child support arose and Cardi B got involved asking for receipts of Offset’s alleged beg for sex. Shya took to her Instagram to rant about Offset and Cardi B and actually shared the receipts she was asked to share.
When Cardi B eventually announced her divorce from her husband Offset, it seemed like Shya and Offset rekindled their romance again as both of them were pictured spending a lot of time together, and even Offset shared photos of him and Shya with his daughter together.
