Liv Morgan says her New Jersey childhood came with chicken tenders, Shirley Temples and the sound of Fetty Wap. In an interview with Billboard, Morgan and Dirty Dominik Mysterio talked about their first WrestleMania moments, their entrance themes and the music that shaped them as the WWE pair known on screen as each other's partner.
Morgan returned to Elmwood Park Diner in New Jersey during the conversation and said the rapper was part of the soundtrack around her growing up. “We were the first to get him, though,” she said, adding that he was “right next door in Paterson” and that “we had ‘Trap Queen’ before everyone else.” The comments tied her upbringing in the 2010s to a local artist who was close enough to feel like part of the neighborhood, not just the radio. Morgan also said she would sing her entrance theme herself, a nod to how closely the music and her character have become linked.
Mysterio, for his part, said he came up on 2Pac, Ice Cube and N.W.A. as a West Coast kid, then moved into Kendrick Lamar, Game and other newer West Coast acts by the time he reached high school. The duo also built an ultimate Billboard Mixtape that ran from Lil Wayne to 50 Cent to Abbey Romeo from Love on the Spectrum, a mix that showed how wide the range was even in a wrestling interview.
The timing gives the conversation extra weight because Morgan also teased her single, “Trouble,” debuting exclusively with Billboard this week. That puts her music push alongside WrestleMania 42 season chatter and the continued public rollout of her pairing with Mysterio, which lets the interview work on two levels at once: as a wrestling feature and as a music profile. Morgan’s comments about Fetty Wap were not just nostalgia. They were a reminder that her story starts in New Jersey, and that she still talks about it like someone who never left it behind.
The cleaner read is that Morgan is turning a local upbringing into part of her public identity while she broadens her profile beyond the ring. If “Trouble” lands, the next step is not whether she can talk about music, but whether she can turn those references into a second act that sounds as natural as the one that got her here.