The follow-up, "Hey There" (featuring Future (4)), made #47 on the Hot Urban Songs chart. The song, "Back Up" (featuring Big Sean), included on the EP, made such sleeper success when it peaked at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #13 on the Rap Songs chart. It didn't make the charts, however, but was positively reviewed by critics. This garnered Dej Loaf a spot as part of the XXL Magazine 2015 Freshman Class.Īfterwards, Dej Loaf released her debut EP, #AndSeeThatsTheThing, in July 2015 as a digital release and her first major project for Columbia Records. The song, "Try Me", was certified gold on Apby the RIAA. Loaf also opened for her former rival Nicki Minaj during the North American leg of The Pinkprint Tour.
Since then, she was also featured on other songs including "Be Real" by Kid Ink, "Ryda" by The Game (2) and "I Just Wanna." by Elijah Blake. The track appears on Disc X of the Shady Records 15th anniversary compilation, Shady XV, released in late 2014. Everybody", along with fellow Detroit natives Big Sean, Eminem, Danny Brown, Royce da 5'9" and Trick Trick. Her first nationwide attention became much larger as she was featured on "Detroit vs. She was signed to Sony Music-based Columbia Records that same month and shortly after the release of her second mixtape. Three months later, she released her second mixtape, Sell Sole. "Try Me" has peaked at number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The track "Try Me", produced by DDS, was released as a single in July 2014 and rose to viral popularity after Canadian recording artist Drake quoted lyrics from the song in an Instagram post. She was later signed to his label IBGM (an acronym for I Been Gettin' Money). Dej released her debut mixtape, Just Do It, in 2012, which attracted the attention of fellow Detroit rapper Sayitainttone. Her stage name, Dej Loaf, is a portmanteau of a shortened version of her first name, "Deja", and "loafer", as she took a keen interest in Air Jordans growing up. She graduated from Southeastern High School in Detroit, MI in 2009, played basketball up to the junior varsity level, and later attended Saginaw Valley State University to study nursing for three semesters before deciding to focus on a full-time music career. A self-described "good kid and a decent student" who mostly kept to herself, she began writing her own original music as early as nine years old. Her father was killed when she was four years old. Growing up, she often listened to music with her parents and grandmother, ranging "from 2Pac to Rakim to Miles Davis." She was raised on the eastern area of Detroit, Michigan. Deja Trimble (born April 8, 1991), better known by her stage name Dej Loaf (stylized as DeJ Loaf), is an American rapper and singer, originally born in Warren, Michigan.
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