With fans like Drake waiting to hear what she’ll do on her debut album, she’s ignoring the pressure and focusing on creating a great body of work. Still, she tries to find the time to date, but is not looking for anything serious. “I’m single and I’m focusing on my music,” she says. She has dreams of becoming as big as Jay Z and knows she has a lot of work to do. Today at 25, all Dej Loaf cares about is making an impact with the talents God gave her.
Take A Look Inside Dej Loaf’s Coming To America Themed Birthday Bash “It was just like, ‘Yo, music is it!” she says.”I feel like God was just showing me where I needed to be.” She released her debut mixtape, Sell Sole, and opened for Nicki Minaj on The Pinkprint Tour soon after. Her life quickly changed: “Everyone was like, ‘Who’s that?’ Then everything was a roller coaster.” Drake even posted a caption to his Instagram with her lyrics. Soon after, rappers and notable NBA stars took a public liking to the song. He posted a video with her song playing in the background, and it spread like wildfire. The special record got the attention of a fellow Detroit artist named Pablo Skywalkin’, who had a large following in the Bay Area. “When I wrote it I was like, “Yo! I got to get to the studio!” “I definitely felt like it was a special record because I wanted to record it immediately,” she says. Shortly after that, she recorded 2014’s “Try Me,” the song that would change her life. She eventually joined a local collective of artists who appreciated her laid-back tomboy style, but soon outgrew them. As a shy kid who’d spend time writing down lyrics to her favorite songs while her mom did “kitchen hair” in their home, songwriting came easy to her. The day after her revelation, she decided to take her talents seriously. The lady I worked for handed me a toothbrush- a cleaning toothbrush-to scrub in between the tiles in the bathroom floor,” Dej recalls. “I was doing janitorial work for a Chrysler car company. MAC’s Newest Collaboration is Inspired by 4 Black Women in Music
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Now, in 2016, she has a gold single, 3.9 million followers, three successful mixtapes (her latest, All Jokes Aside, dropped last month), her own Mac lip gloss and an upcoming performance at ESSENCE Festival. She only had a gut feeling that everything would work out. She had no money, no plan, and no idea how she was going to make her secret dream of becoming a rapper/singer come true. In 2011, Dej Loaf was scrubbing floors after dropping out of college.
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