Shake It To The Max (FLY)

Album

Single

Label

Gamma

Genre

Dancehall

Duration

7:00

Composer(s)

Moliy Ama Montgomery;Neil Dyer;Adam Kevin Alexander

Entered Chart

May 31, 2025

Peak Date

Jul 5, 2025

Released

December 3, 2024

Born and raised in Accra, Ghana, Moliy has a musical sensibility that carries the humidity of both West Africa and South Florida, where she lived after turning 18. Her sound is what people call "Afrofusion," which essentially means she picks the best bits from Afrobeat, pop, soul, dancehall, and whatever else is lying around, and stirs it all into something fresh and distinctly hers. Moliy first popped onto the global radar after featuring on Amaarae's 2020 song "Sad Girlz Luv Money" alongside Kali Uchis. The track charted worldwide, and she found herself becoming a bit of a star. "Shake it to the Max (FLY)" is a collaboration with the South Florida-based Jamaican dancehall producer Silent Addy. "Shake It to the Max (FLY)," is exactly the sort of song you'd want playing while doing anything mildly celebratory: dancing in your room, trying on an outfit you can't afford, or pretending your kitchen is a music video set. It's a self-confidence anthem for the rest of us, with lyrics that shout empowerment but still manage to feel breezy: "I wanna fly, hands in the sky," Moliy sings, followed closely by the sort of dance-floor instructions you'd get from a very supportive aerobics instructor: "Go and bend your back, go and bend your knees, baby shake it to the max." The song is not so much a narrative as it is a manifesto. There are mentions of being "number 1 in command," "dressed to kill," and refusing to wait for anyone's approval Silent Addy and his fellow Jamaican producer Disco Neil give it all a potent dose of Afro-dancehall bounce, and the result is a track that makes you want to book a tropical holiday. Released on December 3, 2024, the song quickly blew up on TikTok with a dance challenge and thousands of videos using it as a soundtrack. The song got a dancehall-heavy remix in early 2025 featuring dancehall stars Skillibeng and Shenseea. Skillibeng had already made a splash by hopping on the remix of Tyla's "Jump." The new version of the track took the original's celebratory vibe and turned it up several degrees: the temperature of a good street party in Kingston.

I, I wanna fly
Hands in the sky, I wanna fly
You know I like to make it drop, drop, drop
Know I like to make it pop, pop, pop
Make my body wanna talk, talk, talk
Yeah, you make me wanna jo, jo, jo
And if you hear this song then go on bend your back
Go on bend your knees, baby, shake it to the max
Will the DJ please turn up the bass to the max?
Please just rewind, let me shake it to the max
Don't got to fear, number one in command
I came just to kill, me, I'm too militant
They want figure eight but I don't need a man
Steady love how me whine in mi True Religion
You dealing with a baddie of course
Oh, you dealing with a boss
If we break up, yeah, you know that it's your loss
Upgraded every dude I ever tossed
Said he want me back, he can't touch this
Baby, I already leveled up
You're looking for love and I'm looking for Jollof
Baby, you can't handle all the sauce
And if you hear this song then go on bend your back
Go on bend your knees, baby, shake it to the max
Will the DJ please turn up the bass to the max?
Please just rewind, let me shake it to the max
Shake it to the max
Shake it to the max
Sha-Shake it to the max
Please just rewind, let me shake it to the max
Don't got to fear, number one in command
I came just to kill, me, I'm too militant
They want figure eight but I don't need a man
Steady love how me whine in mi True Religion
You dealing with a baddie of course
Oh, you dealing with a boss
If we break up, yeah, you know that it's your loss
Upgraded every dude I ever tossed
And if you hear this song then go on bend your back
Go on bend your knees, baby, shake it to the max
Will the DJ please turn up the bass to the max?
Please just rewind, let me shake it to the max
Shake it to the max
Shake it to the max
Sha-Shake it to the max
Please just rewind, let me shake it to the max