@@mysticalb1tch At the time a lot of people felt it was Rigga Morris because Raja was already an industry eye-con, and her win was spoiled. She’s now proving even more how deserved her original win was.
I've really been going through some things, so when she did her "viral video dance" for AW1, I actually wept because I really felt like for a second someone cared about me enough to check in with how I felt and it was Queen Raja. It was so silly, but really beautiful and what I needed in that moment. I started watching RPDR in 2016 and Raja has always been one of my favourites. I'm 100% team Raja for AW1.
Nowadays it’s all staged. In fact I think Season 3 was the last time the winning queen found out they won on the main stage during filming - now they just film all the top queens winning and cut in the winner.
I love what Bob the Drag Queen says about her 'other girls use references, Raja is the reference' she's so beyond anything else. Her laser dress in the 'All Glowed Up' runway... Masterpiece
I remember being 12 and searching for “drag racing” trying to find nascar but ended up finding the premiere of her season, and I’m so thankful I did 🥹 10+ years later seeing her again on my tv, such a full circle and re-inspiring moment.
Awesome! I like Both kinds of Drag Races too…lol I’m 60 & 10 yrs ago I wouldn’t of thought I would be watching more Drag Queens Race. Hmmm, I wonder how the ‘energy’ would be w/ the sound NASCAR Drag race with some of the Queens Drag race? 😂
Oh, what a soft-spoken person she is! Could literally listen to her for hours. And also, there is a lot of wisdom in everything she's talking about. I love that combination
It's even weird to see Raja competing, she's so beyond, so professional, she already has proved herself as an unique artist to be one of the official and permanent judges along with Ru and MIchelle and to have a program of her own (as she already greatly did). I adored her in her season, love her now and ever!
everything she says is so wise. can tell she really enjoys and cares about what she does as an artist. she’s such an inspiration to me, i look up to her so much. i’ll be just like you raja i swear
It's because she was raised by Old School Queens who taught her respect, manners and history. She learned to reverant... her thought process is a beautiful as she is. This didn't show in her regular season. I'm glad I got to see and hear this part of Sutan.
honestly she could start her own 'religion' and i'd join. i love her earth mother presence. i'm her age, so i don't see her as 'old'. i do see her as wise though.
No, Raja your cry was NOT ugly. That’s pretty much impossible. You are one of the most gorgeous people I’ve ever seen. Then and now, in and out of drag - you’re a stunner! Moreover your personality and energy is just as beautiful. You are loved by so many 🥰
Nobody? Really? I think you can find comments in each Raja's video (where you can see her out of drag) where people finding Sutan attractive. Okay. I know I'm just being pedantic over exaggerated experssion and I hate myself for that.
I spoke with her on the phone, she is genuinely such a kind soul. Her advice to me was to be kind and celebrate my queerness. Without her advice, my high school years would have been so much harder. I hope i get to meet her in person one day and let her know how much she helped me.
The peace and confidence she carries within herself is so awe-inspiring. This is the most honest and vulnerable I’ve ever heard Raja speak. She said I am not perfect, but I am an icon. She is absolutely that. Stan Raja forever ❤️
"I wanted to be that person kids could look up to" if I can say anything with 100% certainty, Auntie Raja is someone many of us look up to. We love you and respect you more than many in our own families.
I love how grounded Raja is in the way she speaks about things. Like with her music video - “that was a hose, that was a leaf blower” lol. I love her message of authenticity and that art is what you make of it ❤️
What an articulate, kind human being. She’s so reflective and appreciative of each of her experiences, regardless of their outcomes. Complete legend and a beautiful soul.
Always love Raja, she is beautiful inside and out and speaks with wisdom, clarity, kindness and a sense of style and history of which she is a part. A legend!
I love Raja and her drag but I also love her attitude and her outlook on life 💕 She's so chill and sweet but she also isn't afraid to speak her mind and be herself. She's been open about smoking weed for awhile lol. She's also come up with some of the most creative and iconic looks on Drag Race. I think my favorite Raja look is still the iconic Marie Antoinette look from S3.
I wasn't very attached to Raja back in her og season, but now I'm totally in love with her personality, her aesthetic and her beauty. Something about her hits different for me now, she just seems ethereal somehow.
I sincerely thought Raja won because she was friends with RuPaul. She was a fashion queen, and little else. There far superior queens that season (but this was ages ago).
Raja will forever be an inspiration for me such talented person and genuine, I got the chance to meet raja in Drag-con I believe 2016 and I was freaking out because I just admire it so much as a queen and artist many years back even before drag race anyways, I started talking Spanish because I was in Panic mode (Spanish is my first language) and Raja just calm me down talk to me in Spanish and give me the biggest hug plus took a picture with me … the most precious soul !!! After this I decide it was the time to quit my job and start the career I always wanted as a makeup artist and I never looked back definitely the happiest years of my life !!
Raja is the queen that made me love drag and the art that comes with it. She’s just a legendary icon and I really really adore her. I also stan Sutan Amrull. That person is genuinely one of the coolest people I’ve ever seen. 🥺♥️
Such an honorable, expressive, and respectable person. Raja’s influence is far reaching and their ability to continually inspire many should never be overlooked. I’m so grateful to be living in this era of freedom and creativity, makes me very excited for the future.
Love u raja. I remember watching u on season 3 and now all stars. My grandma and me use to watch the show together and when she saw the trailer with u , she’s love watching your artistry
Is anyone else as thrilled as I am that we get to see so much of the EYECON? What a joy to watch the legend remind remind these kids who she is. I may not be in a bad mood for the rest of 2022, maybe next year also.
it's weird to see her so understated. I'm used to seeing her incredibly out doing everyone. Raja will always be my fav. I think it's her motherly/calm/advice like personality.
I remember watching ANTM as a teen, and loving Sutan because of his humor, love of fashion, and his queerness. After he left the show, I wondered where he went to, and that's how I discovered Drag Race in 2010. I'm so happy to have been a fan for so long. I've met him twice and both times were magical. I'm so happy for all of Raja's success.
Raja is an inspiration and icon to me, as someone who doesn’t feel like they belong, what she stands for really resonates within and I can’t thank Raja enough.
I love Raja so much, I’m hoping AS7 brings her even more opportunities and success. I hope the entire world can see how incredible and talented she really is.
raja is truly a force of nature. her love for creating art in general is so inspiring to me! she is so wise, and yet she still finds ways to grow as an artist. idk how else to say this, but she truly captures the essence of an artist. it just RADIATES.
My favorite ever! Ever since I saw Raja on season 3, I was like oh my god, she's perfect. And not just the looks, the incredibile fashion sense, but the personality. Wish she was my best friend.
I miss Raja on fashion photo ruview SO MUCH. Her insights are just not something anyone else can replicate. I think Roger tooting and booting herself and the queens she was competing against would have been hilarious.
Raja is so inspiring!!! I love her and she is definitely a roll model 😊Much love to her 💕😍 Pretty much her mantra is "Be your-queer-self and do not apologize, enjoy live, laugh and love" Love this queen💕
Youve been a fave of mine since season three, Ive never stopped loving you or following you. you are so talented and poised, polite, well mannered. you set thebar so high, be proud of yourself sweetie. 😍🥰😘
I really appreciate that newer drag race fans are really connecting to Raja as a result of All Stars 7.
💯💗
I actually just got done with season 3 and screamed when Raja one, I adore her
@@mysticalb1tch At the time a lot of people felt it was Rigga Morris because Raja was already an industry eye-con, and her win was spoiled. She’s now proving even more how deserved her original win was.
Seeing Raja enjoying AS7 is a joy for me!!!! She's there but she's not so serious and having fun!!!
I've really been going through some things, so when she did her "viral video dance" for AW1, I actually wept because I really felt like for a second someone cared about me enough to check in with how I felt and it was Queen Raja. It was so silly, but really beautiful and what I needed in that moment. I started watching RPDR in 2016 and Raja has always been one of my favourites. I'm 100% team Raja for AW1.
To me, Raja’s “ugly cry” represents the last genuine reaction to winning the crown, it’s such a beautiful moment.
Didn't Tyra have a literal panic attack?
Nowadays it’s all staged. In fact I think Season 3 was the last time the winning queen found out they won on the main stage during filming - now they just film all the top queens winning and cut in the winner.
I think Trixie’s win on Allstars was actually pretty genuine
@@cami1610 Nah, she kind of let it slip on UNHhhh that it was staged. Trixie is just a good actress.
@@pixiestxNyomouf Tyra Sanchez won before raja
she's a legend, she's an eye-con and she is the moment. cmon NOW.
Amen!!!
AMEN
“The moment” bit…can we stop saying this already.
👑 they marmalade jelly
Sorry but I hate when people forget the other "NOW" lol 👎
I love what Bob the Drag Queen says about her 'other girls use references, Raja is the reference' she's so beyond anything else. Her laser dress in the 'All Glowed Up' runway... Masterpiece
"She didn't abbreviate" 😂 the editors are so good
I was cackling😂
And we don't want her to ever! We just want her to say that she's going to and then do whatever she feels like doing with perfection 🤣🙌
She a Gemini... we don't
@@ketamine4757 yesss her last name is literally Gemini lol
That part KILLED ME
I remember being 12 and searching for “drag racing” trying to find nascar but ended up finding the premiere of her season, and I’m so thankful I did 🥹 10+ years later seeing her again on my tv, such a full circle and re-inspiring moment.
LOl that's funny
this is such a wholesome comment
And I've had the opposite happen. I was looking for RPDR and all I got was a bunch of sports cars.
Awesome! I like Both kinds of Drag Races too…lol
I’m 60 & 10 yrs ago I wouldn’t of thought I would be watching more Drag Queens Race. Hmmm, I wonder how the ‘energy’ would be w/ the sound NASCAR Drag race with some of the Queens Drag race? 😂
LMAO, yup. That's how I found RPDR for the first time around the same age
Ugh I love Raja so much. She’s a legend. She deserves so much success.
I complete agree
but that gray hair gots to go
@@rondaallen7211 why? There’s nothing wrong with aging, it’s a privilege, in my opinion
@@bunnyfrosting1744 oh. is that her real hair? i thought it was drag!
@@rondaallen7211 I mean compliments to Raja. Woman in her 50s and grey hair on her just looks like she dyed it.
Everybody say "thank you" to Raja, Drag Race became a high fashion runway because of her, she walked so queens everyone loves today could run.
Facts facts facts. Raja is a trailblazer, she doesn’t care and is so authentically herself.
Oh, what a soft-spoken person she is! Could literally listen to her for hours. And also, there is a lot of wisdom in everything she's talking about. I love that combination
Her video series "Raja Drawja" is lovely. She just draws and talks soothingly. ❤
You should listen to her podcast "Very That" with Delta. It's great!
She has a podcast weekly call “very that” Soooo much fun to listen to
Listen to the podcast being mentioned here! It’s very enjoyable!
We need a Drag Queens Read You to Sleep book. They can throw in the occasional insult while they read.
It's even weird to see Raja competing, she's so beyond, so professional, she already has proved herself as an unique artist to be one of the official and permanent judges along with Ru and MIchelle and to have a program of her own (as she already greatly did). I adored her in her season, love her now and ever!
She's so freaking talented it's hard believe one person can be so artistically gifted 💕
@@kimkoh3094 I know!!!
Just one of the most exquisite creatures to ever walk this earth. Cannot get enough of her.
Perfect word: exquisite.
everything she says is so wise. can tell she really enjoys and cares about what she does as an artist. she’s such an inspiration to me, i look up to her so much. i’ll be just like you raja i swear
It's because she was raised by Old School Queens who taught her respect, manners and history. She learned to reverant... her thought process is a beautiful as she is. This didn't show in her regular season. I'm glad I got to see and hear this part of Sutan.
honestly she could start her own 'religion' and i'd join. i love her earth mother presence. i'm her age, so i don't see her as 'old'. i do see her as wise though.
Raja means SO MUCH to me, representing for the brown asian kids and being such an icon. We simply have to stan!
yawn
@@leoxxxx9276 go nap girl
No, Raja your cry was NOT ugly. That’s pretty much impossible. You are one of the most gorgeous people I’ve ever seen. Then and now, in and out of drag - you’re a stunner! Moreover your personality and energy is just as beautiful. You are loved by so many 🥰
Exactly!! And there’s no such thing as an ugly cry- we are all humans and showing emotion and crying is never ugly ♥️
There’s no way anyone thought her cry was ugly. Just goes to show that everyone is their own harshest critic.
Raja lacks the ability to look bad in any way, shape or form.
The last genuine cry; she didn’t have to act for a take like the queens starting season 4.
Raja SHOULD have been in the top two for her Snatch game. Legendary, just like her.
Absolutely fabulous!
Yes!!!
Agreed. Trinity was good, but she was playing the same character twice.
I have been saying “PURPLE MITTENS!” way too often since then. Raja was so good. Trinity was great, too, but I loved Raja so much.
Raja should have won the ball challenge too
“She did not abbreviate” - the shade lol. Raja describing her experience on the Simpsons is so pure 💜
Nobody ever talks about what an absolutely stunning creature Raja is out of drag. They're GORGEOUS.
DEFINITELY
Nobody? Really? I think you can find comments in each Raja's video (where you can see her out of drag) where people finding Sutan attractive.
Okay. I know I'm just being pedantic over exaggerated experssion and I hate myself for that.
No, I think that's what pretty much everyone is talking about.
I spoke with her on the phone, she is genuinely such a kind soul. Her advice to me was to be kind and celebrate my queerness. Without her advice, my high school years would have been so much harder. I hope i get to meet her in person one day and let her know how much she helped me.
That's amazing! I idolize Raja! 💗
Wow that’s amazing. How’d you get the chance to speak to her on the phone?
Raja is so wise. And her voice? Divine.
She’s literally on Rupauls level , she’s an ICON
EYE-con
After how many seasons of Drag Race, Raja is still my favorite winner ever. ♥♥♥
Same!
Mine, too!!
Always has been, always will be my absolute favorite!
Ditto!!! Such a legend!!!
Best season with season 5
THE ICON, THE GODDESS, THE IDOL, THE DIVA, THE BEING, THE KING, THE QUEEN, THE VIBE, THE PAST, THE NOW, THE FOREVER...Raja
100% !!!
🎯
Yup!
Dont forget THE SUPREME & THE DEITY 🙌🏻 Just like she said on all star 7 "Raja the goddess, supreme and deity..."
#TeamRaja
@@relll394 oh YES!!! 🙌🏾 always #teamraja 🖤
Raja is one of those people in this world that makes my heart so full whenever she comes up. She is such a treasure
The peace and confidence she carries within herself is so awe-inspiring. This is the most honest and vulnerable I’ve ever heard Raja speak. She said I am not perfect, but I am an icon. She is absolutely that. Stan Raja forever ❤️
PEACE AND CONFIDENCE WITHOUT THE ARROGANCY. There is goodness and positivity in her. She is spokeswoman, a spokesman. Genuine, kind and exquisite.
💯 👍
"I wanted to be that person kids could look up to" if I can say anything with 100% certainty, Auntie Raja is someone many of us look up to. We love you and respect you more than many in our own families.
I love how grounded Raja is in the way she speaks about things. Like with her music video - “that was a hose, that was a leaf blower” lol. I love her message of authenticity and that art is what you make of it ❤️
What an articulate, kind human being. She’s so reflective and appreciative of each of her experiences, regardless of their outcomes. Complete legend and a beautiful soul.
I LOVE Raja, she represents the soul of Drag, what's underneath all of the makeup and performance. She is pure art.
Always love Raja, she is beautiful inside and out and speaks with wisdom, clarity, kindness and a sense of style and history of which she is a part. A legend!
Raja is so extraordinary. She’s in a league of her own, definitely someone who inspires me in multiple ways. She should write a book 😊
I love Raja and her drag but I also love her attitude and her outlook on life 💕 She's so chill and sweet but she also isn't afraid to speak her mind and be herself. She's been open about smoking weed for awhile lol. She's also come up with some of the most creative and iconic looks on Drag Race. I think my favorite Raja look is still the iconic Marie Antoinette look from S3.
I wasn't very attached to Raja back in her og season, but now I'm totally in love with her personality, her aesthetic and her beauty. Something about her hits different for me now, she just seems ethereal somehow.
what "OG" means ?
@@MrLuis85698 Original
Yesssss
What does "OG" mean ? and why is it exclusively associated with Raja?
I sincerely thought Raja won because she was friends with RuPaul. She was a fashion queen, and little else. There far superior queens that season (but this was ages ago).
I love her, she makes ridiculous things look good and she can walk the runway with anything and still looks gorgeous!
Preach. 💖
Right? Only raja can pull off the flashy clashy things. It’s so awesome!
Raja will forever be an inspiration for me such talented person and genuine, I got the chance to meet raja in Drag-con I believe 2016 and I was freaking out because I just admire it so much as a queen and artist many years back even before drag race anyways, I started talking Spanish because I was in Panic mode (Spanish is my first language) and Raja just calm me down talk to me in Spanish and give me the biggest hug plus took a picture with me … the most precious soul !!! After this I decide it was the time to quit my job and start the career I always wanted as a makeup artist and I never looked back definitely the happiest years of my life !!
Raja is the queen that made me love drag and the art that comes with it. She’s just a legendary icon and I really really adore her. I also stan Sutan Amrull. That person is genuinely one of the coolest people I’ve ever seen. 🥺♥️
Such an honorable, expressive, and respectable person. Raja’s influence is far reaching and their ability to continually inspire many should never be overlooked. I’m so grateful to be living in this era of freedom and creativity, makes me very excited for the future.
She is an ICON, she is a LEGEND and she is the MOMENT
It's so touching to see Raja be genuinely and humbly grateful for all the fabulousness a long and successful Drag career has brought to her life.
I really love the fact that she took credit for her input in the industry. It’s important to recognise who you are
She’s my queen of queens. There’s always a grand excellence that Raja brings that I will never get over
Yesss! Well said RJ !
Love u raja. I remember watching u on season 3 and now all stars. My grandma and me use to watch the show together and when she saw the trailer with u , she’s love watching your artistry
I’ve loved her since ANTM. She’s definitely one of my favorite drag queens.
Jinkx and Raja should be the ones with the most stars so far in All Stars 7. They have both been slaying.
this interview almost made me cry. I loved every bit of it
Is anyone else as thrilled as I am that we get to see so much of the EYECON? What a joy to watch the legend remind remind these kids who she is. I may not be in a bad mood for the rest of 2022, maybe next year also.
"She did not abbreviate" love the sassy editing!
What an icon! My fave always 🥰🥰
I love raja just has so much grace.
it's weird to see her so understated. I'm used to seeing her incredibly out doing everyone. Raja will always be my fav. I think it's her motherly/calm/advice like personality.
She is a legend. You do not ask a legend to abbreviate, you bask in their presence.
I remember watching ANTM as a teen, and loving Sutan because of his humor, love of fashion, and his queerness. After he left the show, I wondered where he went to, and that's how I discovered Drag Race in 2010.
I'm so happy to have been a fan for so long. I've met him twice and both times were magical. I'm so happy for all of Raja's success.
the best part of this season was seeing how iconic and fierce raja remained after these years
The amount of joy I felt when I saw the video was 15 minutes almost made me cry
Raja is just pure magic. Serious star quality.
Raja is an inspiration and icon to me, as someone who doesn’t feel like they belong, what she stands for really resonates within and I can’t thank Raja enough.
I am grateful for Raja.
She's really such a well spoken, kind, kind of intimidating and nice person. I really wish to be more articulate in my speech like her.
RAJA IS A LEGEND!!
5:08 “I like the idea of always playing.” 💯
Raja is the real definition of explicit fashion.♡!
She's been my all time favorite queen since season 3 💜🧿✨ Love that now she's getting all that recognition.
Raja pls make your own UA-cam Channel, we want more of you!
Raja is my spirit animal, love her!
Beautiful, talented, immaculate, gorgeous, wise, soothsayer, witch, genius, goddess, supreme deity, etc
Raja I really love you... You inspire so many people for many years, I´m ver glad that you came back to Rupaul Drag Race to see you shine again
They gotta bring back Raja Drawja!!!!
Yes! Wow Presents might have the budget now to properly invest in the show. A campaign should be started!
I need more of this gorgeous human. My favourite Queen ever!❤️😭😭👑👑👑
She is so sincere and sweet. She is my absolute favorite. Every time I think I can’t possibly fall more in love with Raja, I do!! ❤
When anyone says Drag, Raja will always be one of the first things that comes to my mind
Love Raja she’s like a drag unicorn! Rare & Magical! She give me all the feels! ✨✨
I never heard of drag until I seen Raja in pictures. Stunning person. She is my favorite one .
Raja is in my top 3 favorite drag race queens for sure. such a lovely person.
I love Raja so much, I’m hoping AS7 brings her even more opportunities and success. I hope the entire world can see how incredible and talented she really is.
That’s a Vivienne Westwood set she’s wearing, so iconic!
Thanks for the scoop--I've been coveting it this whole video!
came to the comments to clock the westwood squiggle print as well lmao
raja is just simply a a master at her craft, i live for miss rajz
"She did not abbreviate" sent me into orbit 😭😭
My favourite drag race queen of all time. So much admiration for this artist.
I've always admired Raja, she is very talented, genuine, very forward thinking, smart and funny.
raja is truly a force of nature. her love for creating art in general is so inspiring to me! she is so wise, and yet she still finds ways to grow as an artist. idk how else to say this, but she truly captures the essence of an artist. it just RADIATES.
What an absolutely glorious delight to see Raja and listen to the wisdom. Wonderful. Thank you so much.
I love Raja, I’ve been her fan since season 3, OG fashion queen, so cool and effortless ❤️ PS: love her Vivienne Westwood outfit in this interview.
I just love her so much. She’s so genuine and real 😭
My favorite ever! Ever since I saw Raja on season 3, I was like oh my god, she's perfect. And not just the looks, the incredibile fashion sense, but the personality. Wish she was my best friend.
So classy and well spoken ❤️ and a gorgeous queen inside and out.
I just love her. She brings so much joy to my life.
I miss Raja on fashion photo ruview SO MUCH. Her insights are just not something anyone else can replicate. I think Roger tooting and booting herself and the queens she was competing against would have been hilarious.
I love her hair! She is amazing in every single angle, shape and artistry. A Legendary Queen!
I also grew up with Madame & Wayland.
I love that Raja played her on Snatch Game.
Raja is legendary!!! Showing the world a more fashion queen esthetic beyond what many defined as drag at the time
Raja is so grounded and that’s what makes him a legend.
What a stunning talk. That was the beautiful, inspirational moment I needed in my day.
I love the explanation she gave behind the madam character … i have a new found appreciation for it . raja is brilliant and i love this video
and THIS is why Raja is a legend.
Raja is so inspiring!!! I love her and she is definitely a roll model 😊Much love to her 💕😍 Pretty much her mantra is "Be your-queer-self and do not apologize, enjoy live, laugh and love" Love this queen💕
My fav Drag Queen of all time🥹🥹❤️❤️
Youve been a fave of mine since season three, Ive never stopped loving you or following you. you are so talented and poised, polite, well mannered. you set thebar so high, be proud of yourself sweetie. 😍🥰😘
Wow, now that’s the type of best friend you want right there. I’m rooting for raja for allstars. Such a queen!
Raja is one of my favorite queens!!
Raja is everything
Raja is such an inspiration to a lot o people inside and outside the drag community. We love you Raja Gemini💗💗💗
I love Raja!!!