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Aja, also known as Aja Miyake-Mugler and previously known as Aja LaBeija, is a rapper and drag artist from Brooklyn, New York City. She competed on the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3.

Aja later returned as a Lip-Sync Assassin in All Stars 8. She won her lip-sync against Kahanna Montrese, revealing that the group chose to eliminate Monica Beverly Hillz.

Aja would later return to compete on the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars.

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About[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10[]

“Ayo, sis—Aja is in the building! Part Harajuku, part hood, all attitude. This Brooklyn-bred banjee queen from Season 9 and All Stars 3 is back with a fast tongue, sickening vogue moves, and some unfinished business. She’s here to cement her legacy—and snatch that crown.”[6]

Drag Name Origin[]

The name Aja was chosen because her original name was supposed to be Aja, but pronounced as "Asia," but because people kept mispronouncing it as "Ah-ja," she kept it.[7]

Track Records[]

Statistics USA Season 9 USA All Stars
Season 3 		USA All Stars
Season 10
Ranking: 9th Place 7th Place TBA
Maxi Challenges Won: 0 1 (Ep. 1) 1 (Ep. 1)
Mini Challenges Won: 0 1 (Ep. 5) TBA
Times as Team Captain: 1 (Ep. 4) 0 TBA
Times in Bottom: 2 (Eps. 3, 7) 2 (Eps. 3, 5) TBA
Episode Eliminated: Episode 7 Episode 5 TBA

Memorable Quotes[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9[]

  • "Your edges are officially snatched!" (entrance Quote)
  • "I feel so at home with so many talented girls."
  • "The true gagarini. That is what is about to go down."
  • "Nina Bo'nina fell on the sofina!"
  • "I'm an Illuminati princess, they tried to silence me and I'm like, no bitch I'm still gonna talk." (during their White Party Realness runway.)
  • "You’re perfect, you’re beautiful, you look like Linda Evangelista, you’re a model! Everything about you is perfect! Did you stone those tights? Oh, you’re smiling! They eat her up EVERY SINGLE TIME she’s on that damned stage! Shedoesn'tevenhavetodoanythin- She could walk out there in a fucking diaper and they’d be like, “Valentina! Your smile is beautiful!" (to Valentina during the "Untucked" in Episode 3 "Draggily Ever After".)
  • "Trinity is selling the song right now. Charlie on the other hand, it looks like she's telling children to get off her lawn." (about the Trinity the Tuck vs Charlie Hides lip-sync)
  • "Girl, I feel like a soft serve ice cream cone right now!"
  • "Did my nose get thinner?"
  • "Gooped and Gagged."
  • ”I just don’t feel like you should be Miss Congeniality”
  • "I think I'm just gonna get on MY knees."
  • "I don't wanna say I read her, I just aggressively complimented her."
  • "Werk fan favorite!"
  • "You're a slut." (jokingly said during "Untucked.")
  • "Yas, Pep!" (when Peppermint came out as transgender during the show)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3[]

  • "Maybe I'll come, maybe I'll win, maybe I'll slay but I won't know unless I play- bitch I'm a poet ya'll see that rhymed." (Meet The Queens)
  • "I feel like I was like a little turtle inside the little shell and now I'm just like a full blown like....what's not a turtle?" (Meet The Queens)
  • "Ayo sis! I have some unfinished business." (entrance quote)
  • "They're going to be telling me my smile is beautiful. Watch."
  • "I'm gonna go put on something more see-through so I can be a hoe."
  • “Go ahead pass me the mic. Let me show you how to do it right. Let me show you how to level up your puss in the middle of a kitty cat fight. Got a secret bigger than Alyssa's, wanna pet my little kitty and kiss her? Banjee queen, got my baby hair slick. Don't gotta say shit, just lick my secret.” (verse in Sitting on a Secret)
  • "Girl, I don’t see no flowers, I don’t see no glitter, I don’t see no gag. You ain’t no Sasha Velour, bitch. Keep your wig on."
  • "What the fuck is happening?" (about BenDeLaCreme eliminating herself)
  • "I have the power of God and anime on my side."
  • ”Do you want Celine to come over and sing you a song? Girl...” (in response to Milk’s breakdown on Episode 2)
  • "Not BenDeLaChrist, savior of Morgan and the drag queens."
  • "Ayo sis! I gotta go!" (exit quote)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 8[]

  • "I heard you want auntie from the back." (Lip Sync Assassin entrance quote)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10[]

  • "♪ You know they had to put the best queen first, I put these girls in a hearse on a the first verse. I'm a wild little baddie with a fatty and some curves, glam rock attitude, my eye roll's stern. I'm charismatic and unique I got nerve, I'm talented I win so much and bitches stay mad at it. I'm leaving with the crown and, girl, I adamant. Whoever in my way I'ma set the rock outta them. Ow! Yeah! I said it. ♪" (Verse in Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner)
  • Aja: "I say drag is a costume, and I love it! Do you love it?"
    • Teeva: "I love it."
    • Aja: "We love it! Yay!"
  • "♪ I'm a wish come true from the place to be. These other shooters ain't shit, they looking lame to me. I'm dunking on these hoes, it's muscle memory. Boutta cash this in, you'll remember me. I'ma beat the buzzer, I got these bitches worried. The way I shoot my shot, just call me Steph Curry. I'm married to the game, just like Ayesha. Say hello to the winners, hey, nice to meet 'ya! ♪" (Verse in Shoot Your Shot with Teeva)
  • "I look forward to seeing you be here 'cause you was in the bottom two last week."
  • "You really just need to humble yourself a little bit. You need to de-escalate whatever you got going on over here 'cause it's getting in the way of you."
  • "There is a part of me that wants to lean over and just backhand that bitch, but, baby, I'm a grown ass woman. I don't fight butch queens."

Extras[]

  • "Sis."
  • "Ayo, sis."
  • "Girl, she is carrying."
  • "Send me home."
  • "Oh yes."
  • ”Owww”
  • "It's real ironic when you walk into All Stars in ninth place, sharing the place as the lowest placing queen on the season with me, and then you walk in, and all your achievements are out of drag, and then you sit there and say we're not on the same level, well you know what baby? I agree with you. We're not on the same level. and you spoke a very true statement, and I'm happy, that out of all the lies you told this season, you said something real. So with that, I applaud you, Milk, I deeply applaud you." ("Other queen: "Do you think she's skim, almond, soy?") "I don't give a fuck, I'm skinnier, and thinner, and more beautiful. And I will always have more estrogen running in my my blood because I was born with two X chromoSOMES. I don't have an Adam's apple, you could never clock me, darling. So take your ponytail and wind it up in that little black box and use that top wig to cover your face, because your mug on this evening? You look like Aquaria on testosterone. So walk back off the runway, and walk back into the workroom, and sign that mirror."[8]

Trivia[]

  • Aja was the youngest queen to compete on Season 9, at the age of 22 during filming. She is also the youngest queen to compete on an All Stars season at the age of 23 during filming, beating out Tatianna and Adore Delano.
  • Aja was the last queen to enter the werkroom on Season 9.
  • Aja was the first queen revealed for All Stars 3, being interviewed by Michelle Visage during a Facebook live-stream, three hours before the contestants' reveal episode.
  • Aja was supposed to wear the rainbow kimono that Lady Gaga wore, and instead later changed it to the "Beauty Has No Shape" dress by Comme des Garçons. She later said that she had saved the kimono for the Rainbow Look on the ball episode.[9]
  • Aja admitted of practicing Santería in the Drag Queen Carpool with RuPaul before Season 9 aired.
    • In episode 7 of Season 9, Aja implies that she does some form of divination readings, possibly in the brujeria style.
  • Aja had to post an Instagram photo and explain about her skin, due to criticisms about her makeup looking rough.
  • She is the first queen to be in the Top 2 for the first Main Challenge in an All Stars season, without winning a Maxi Challenge in their first season, followed by Monique Heart.
    • Coincidentally, they both lost the Lip Sync for your Legacy, and against the queens who win the most Main Challenges in their seasons (respectively BenDeLaCreme with 5 and Trinity The Tuck with 4).
    • India Ferrah also experienced this situation of winning the first Main Challenge in an All Stars season, without winning a Maxi Challenge in their first season, but she lost the Lip Sync for your Legacy to the Lip Sync Assassin, (Yvie Oddly)
  • Aja is the mother of the drag family "The Haus of Aja". Her drag daughters are Dahlia Sin, Kandy Muse, Miss Fiercalicious, Aoki Lee, Momo Shade, and Aurris Garcon.[10]
    • Dahlia, Kandy, and Fierce have all appeared on Drag Race. It is unknown if the rest will appear.
    • Olivia Lux and Aja are ballroom sisters through their shared ballroom father Arturo Miyake Mugler. However, Olivia is not part of the Drag Haus of Aja.[11]
    • Aja also has several non-drag ballroom children.[10]
  • Aja, Alexis Michelle, Peppermint, and Sasha Velour recorded a song together titled "C.L.A.T."[12]
    • They were also interviewed for getoutmag , and had to wear a Broadway themed look, Aja doing Grease.
  • Aja dropped out of high school to do drag, although she had perfect grades.[13]
  • Aja won Drag Queen of the Year at the 4th Annual Brooklyn Nightlife Awards in 2016.[14]
  • On Season 9 and All Stars 3, Aja was up for elimination on episode 3.
  • Aja wears the fragrance Aura, by Thierry Mugler.
  • Her drag family "The Haus of Aja" dissolved because Aja wanted to focus on her career as a rapper, so her drag children (Dahlia Sin, Kandy Muse, and Janelle No.5) created a new drag house called "DOLLHAUS". However, Aja returned to drag shortly before the Season 12 cast announcement, now performing as a member of the Dollhaus with her daughters.
  • On Trinity The Tuck's podcast WERK , she revealed the speculated and mysterious decision of BeBe Zahara Benet on All Stars 3, when she decided to withhold her lip stick choices.
  • On All Stars 3, Aja became the eleventh contestant in the Drag Race franchise to win a Mini Challenge on the episode she got eliminated, after Jade in Season 1, Mystique Summers Madison in Season 2, Phoenix and Yara Sofia in Season 3, Kenya Michaels in Season 4, Alexis Mateo and Yara Sofia in All Stars 1, Ivy Winters in Season 5, BenDeLaCreme in Season 6, Mrs. Kasha Davis in Season 7, and followed by Crystal in Series 1 of Drag Race UK, Tamisha Iman in Season 13 and by Sister Sister in UK Season 2.
  • Aja confirmed on X that she no longer does drag as of October 8, 2019.[15] On September 5, 2021, on Instagram, she explained that the reason was conflict between gender identity and artistic standpoint.
  • In May 2021, Aja revealed she had joined the Royal House of LaBeija. In early 2023, she had changed her social media names to "Aja 007", which signified that she was currently not affiliated with any ballroom house but is still active in ballroom. In October 2023, Aja joined the House of Miyake-Mugler, the same house that Olivia Lux of Season 13 joined.[17]
  • In both of her Snatch Game performances, Aja portrayed a drag queen (Alyssa Edwards in Season 9 and Crystal LaBeija in All Stars 3.
  • Aja has expressed interest in returning for another season of All Stars.[18]
  • On April 27, 2022, Aja was announced as a contestant on Legendary Season 3 representing the Royal House of LaBeija.[19] The House of LaBeija went on to place 6th.
  • She was the first Lip Sync Assassin on All Stars 8.
  • Some of Aja's first drag names were Sindel and Kitana, which are both references to the video game franchise Mortal Kombat.[20]
  • Linda Evangelista has Aja's Untucked rant about Valentina saved on her phone.[21]
  • Aja is first contestant to be part in the lip sync in three premieres: All Stars 3, All Stars 8 (as Lip Sync Assassin) and All Stars 10.
  • In the premiere episode of All Stars 10, Aja made several Pokémon references. These included her entrance, her Slits and Tits runway look, and her LSFYL outfit which were inspired by Roserade, Jynx, and Smoochum respectively.[22][23][24]
  • Aja has worn the same shoes every All Stars premiere she was on.[26]
    • Coincidentally, Aja has won something on each premiere wearing those shoes. On All Stars 3, she was in the Top 2 for the Talent Show, on All Stars 8, she won the lipsync she competed in as the Lipsync Assassin of the week, and on All Stars 10, she was in the Top 2 for the Rumix and won the lipsync.
  • Aja is bisexual.[27]
  • Aja fainted the day after the cheerleading challenge due to dehydration.[28]

Gallery[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9 Looks[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 3 Looks[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 8[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 8 Looks[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 10 Looks[]

Videos[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 8[]

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 10[]

Discography[]

Singles[]

Year Title Artwork Notes
2017 "Level Ya Pussy Up"
2017 "C.L.A.T. (feat. DJ Mitch Ferrino)" with Alexis Michelle,
Peppermint,
& Sasha Velour
2018 "Finish Her! (feat. WNNR
& DJ Accident Report)"
2018 "Brujería (feat. Mitch Ferrino)"
2018 "Demons, Witches & Bitches" with Shilow
& The Vixen
2018 "Art Jesus"
2018 "Jekyll and Hyde (feat. Shilow)"
2019 "Commercial"
2019 "I Ain't Left"
2019 "Mama Chola (feat. Amira Wang)" with Shilow
2023
"Vulture Queen"
2025 Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner with Bosco, DeJa Skye, Irene the Alien, Olivia Lux & Phoenix
2025 Shoot Your Shot with Bosco, DeJa Skye, Irene the Alien, Olivia Lux, Phoenix, The Goddess (Lauren Betts), Octavia Lux (Navaeh Dean), Estelle the Alien (Hunter Hernandez), Heron (Maya Hernandez), Sophie Rocious (Abby Prohaska), & Teeva (Talia von Oelhoffen)

Extended Plays[]

Year Title Artwork Singles Notes
2018 In My Feelings - EP
  1. "Finish Her! (feat. WNNR
    & DJ Accident Report)"
  2. "Brujería (feat. Mitch Ferrino)"
2019
ALL CAPS - EP
  1. "Commercial"
  2. "I Ain't Left"
2019
Nail in the Coffin
  1. "Mama Chola"
with Shilow

Long Plays[]

Year Title Artwork Track List
2019 BOX Office
  1. Tutankhamun
  2. Decepticon
  3. Monster Jam
  4. Breakfast at Tiffany's (feat. Shea Couleé)
  5. Willy Wonka
  6. Rocky (feat. Lady Luck)
  7. Slytherin
  8. Chango (feat. Winstar & Momo Shade)
  9. Ghost
  10. Jekyll & Hyde (feat. Shilow)
  11. Yōkai
  12. Anarchy
  13. Clowns (feat. Rico Nasty)
  14. Safari Zone (feat. Cupcakke)
  15. Kill Bill
2021
CROWN
  1. Esu Elegba Interlude: 21 Keys
  2. 21 Roads (feat. Katie Jobes)
  3. Ogun Interlude: Liquifying Iron
  4. Tough Love (feat. GESS)
  5. Ochosi Interlude: Loading the Bow
  6. Crossbow
  7. Obalouaye Interlude: Crying for Help
  8. Bundschu II (feat. Shilow)
  9. Shango Interlude: Dancing in the Rain
  10. Like Lightning (feat. Regina Del Carmen and Kaya Conky)
  11. Obatala Interlude: Holy Rebirth
  12. White Couture
  13. Obba Nani Interlude: Matrimonial Bondage
  14. Swords Down, Hearts Out (feat. Katie Jobes)
  15. Oya Interlude: Kali & Oya Dance
  16. Horsewh!p (feat. Dai Burger)
  17. Yemoja Interlude: Nigerian Water
  18. Black Ariel (feat. Widow Von'Du, Amira Wang and Kezra Leon)
  19. Oshun Interlude: Tears of Joy
  20. Honey Drip [E' Ladé Oshun] (feat. Amma Whatt)

External Links[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Tweet by ajaoxum | X — January 6, 2020
  2. ↑ Tweet by ajaoxum | X — July 6, 2023
  3. ↑ Tweet by ajaoxum | X — April 3, 2024
  4. ↑ Help Aja with her Gender Journey and Transition | GoFundMe — December 18, 2021
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 ajathekween's Instagram account
  6. ↑ ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Season 10 to Hold ‘Tournament of All Stars’ With a Record 18 Competing Queens | Variety — April 23, 2025
  7. ↑ AJA | Give It To Me Straight | Ep29 | YouTube — January 18, 2024
  8. ↑ Aja – Season 9 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
  9. ↑ RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 3: Favorite Runway | VH1 — January 8, 2018
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 post by ajaoxum | X — June 13, 2025
  11. ↑ Post by TheOliviaLux | X — June 13, 2025
  12. ↑ Instagram
  13. ↑ Get Out Mag - Aja - Season 9 of "RuPaul's Drag Race"
  14. ↑ Vice - Brooklyn Nightlife Awards 2016
  15. ↑ [1] | X - Tweet by Aja
  16. ↑ Post by Aja | Instagram — September 5, 2021
  17. ↑ post by ajathekween | Instagram — October 15, 2023
  18. ↑ Post by ajaoxum | X — December 15, 2021
  19. ↑ Post by legendarymax | Instagram — April 27, 2022
  20. ↑ Give It To Me Straight Interview with Aja | Youtube — January 18, 2024
  21. ↑ post by etalkCTV | X — October 22, 2024
  22. ↑ Post by ajaoxum | X — May 10, 2025
  23. ↑ AjaSmoochum.png | RuPaul's Drag Race Wiki — May 11, 2025
  24. ↑ Post by ajaoxum | X — May 10, 2025
  25. ↑ AjaReferences.png | RuPaul's Drag Race Wiki — May 11, 2025
  26. ↑ Post by cvntybabe | X — May 11, 2025
  27. ↑ New Bicon Alert! Drag Race Star Aja Comes Out as Bisexual | Them — May 12, 2025
  28. ↑ All Stars 10 Queens Recap Every Season of RuPaul's Drag Race | Entertainment Weekly | YouTube — May 13, 2025

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