RuPaul’s Drag Race: Everything To Know About LaLa Ri

RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 is going to feature Atlanta beauty LaLa Ri, who still considers herself a baby drag queen. There has always been a lot of history between Drag Race and Atlanta queens. At one point in his life, RuPaul himself lived in Atlanta, and that was where he saw drag queens performing at clubs for the first time ever. Notable Atlanta queens who have been cast on RuPaul’s Drag Race include season 7 winner Violet Chachki, Sonique, Trinity K. Bonet, and Nina Bo’Nina Brown.

It can be hard for contestants who haven’t been doing drag for a long time to make it far on Drag Race. However, that isn’t entirely unheard-of. One of the most notable examples in recent years was season 9 Miss Congeniality winner Valentina, who had only been doing drag in her bedroom for a year before getting cast on RuPaul’s Drag Race. But she didn’t know the words to a song during a Lip Sync For Your Life, which some queens pointed out as an example of her not having too much experience in the drag scene. But now, it is time for baby queen LaLa Ri to conquer the runway!

Because she had only been doing drag for three years prior to RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13, LaLa Ri still considered herself a “baby queen.” Even before the season started, LaLa is already making history for getting cast on the same season as her drag mother Tamisha Iman. The series has featured several drag performers who come from the same houses or families, but it’s never happened that a mother and a daughter were cast on the same season. LaLa is best known as a dancer, but she wants to show the fans that she can do much more than that. She likes to have a colorful aesthetic, but she’s pretty clear about not knowing how to sew. The fans who are waiting for Drag Race season 13 can follow LaLa Ri on Instagram right now.

It is common for the fans to draw comparisons between queens from the same drag family who go on to compete on RuPaul’s Drag Race, but mother and daughter competing against one another on the same season is absolutely unprecedented. This is a very exciting storyline that the fans will surely keep their eyes on, and only time will tell how their dynamic will be once they’re trying to snatch the same crown.

Season 13 of Drag Race is finally here to ring in the Ru Year, and the fans are ready for this new batch of fierce LGBTQ+ performers.

RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 premieres Friday, January 1, 2021 at 8pm EST on VH1.

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