Everybody”, and remains one of the most exciting young rappers around. Since then, Dej enjoyed a prime guest spot on Eminem's 2014 single “Detroit vs. In the first 40 seconds of the video for Try Me, Dej Loaf rises out of bed. The track charted on the Billboard Hot 100 soon afterwards, and lead to Dej signing a major label record deal with Columbia Records shortly after the release of “Sell Sole”. No similar stretch in the genres history produced sea changes so rapidly.
While its first single “Try Me”, fell under the radar after its initial release in July 2014, it received a huge spike in publicity when Canadian rap superstar Drake quoted some of its lyrics in a post on Instagram. Wks on Chart Be Real Kid Ink Featuring DeJ Loaf 02.21.15 7 12 Wks 06.20.15 22 Try Me DeJ Loaf 11.08.14 8 12 Wks 01.24. She spent the next two years touring and working on her follow up mix-tape “Sell Sole”.
A year afterwards she released her first mixtape “Just Do It”, a release that attracted the attention of fellow Detroit-based rapper SAYITAINTTONE, who signed her to his label IBGM (I Been Gettin' Money) and his management team. As time went on she started penning her own lyrics to compliment her music, and in 2011, nearly a decade later and three semesters into university, she dropped out in order to pursue a music career full-time.
Born Deja Trimble and raised listening to a steady diet of everything from 2Pac to Miles Davis, Dej Loaf was writing her own music by the age of nine.
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