Jessie Murph Reveals What She Has to Do Before Every Show ‘Or I’ll Like Freak Out’ for ‘Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’ Issue

Jessie Murph, known for hits including “Blue Strips” and the Koe Wetzel collaboration “High Road,” is a cover star on the current digital cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Murph posed for the photo shoot in Key Biscayne, Florida.

During her interview with Sports Illustrated, she said the creation process behind her Billboard Hot 100 top 15 hit “Blue Strips” “was genuinely me just f—ing off” in the recording studio. “Some songs just have glitter in them,” she added. “Any time I’d play it, it would make me smile.”

Murph released her second studio album, Sex Hysteria, on Friday. Alongside hits such as “Blue Strips” and “Touch Me Like a Gangster,” the new album includes collabs with Gucci Mane (“Donuts”) and Lil Baby (“Best Behavior”). She gave Sports Illustrated the scoop on her pre-show rituals and the secret behind her signature black bouffant.

“Every time before I go on stage, I have to fist-bump everybody that’s in my vicinity or I like freak out,” she said. “Like I have to do it. Like if you’re standing backstage with me and I don’t get a fist-bump, I’m gonna be really weird about it.”

She noted that the key to her voluminous hairstyle is surprisingly simple. “I normally got like a hair donut in there and then we’ll just tease it a bunch,” she said. “That’s the secret.”

Murph will launch her headlining Worldwide Hysteria Tour on July 27 in Phoenix, with the trek crossing the U.S., Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

See Murph’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit digital cover below: