You started writing around nine years old.

After he got killed, I was just into music. I remember a lot of things the music he used to play the first song I learned how to rap was 2Pac‘s “Wonder Why They Call You Bitch” and E-40’s “Captain Save a Hoe” - not “Captain Save a Hoe,” “Sprinkle Me.” I’m like two or three years old rapping those lyrics. My dad used to play music before he got killed-I was four years old when he got killed. What did you grow up listening to? Did you grow up in a musical household? Drake is one of them-he hasn’t fumbled yet. Some people just come in and make great music. Yeah I man, who’s not? I feel like if you don’t Drake music, you’re a hater. Everything that was happening was just like, “Oh really? How did that happen? How did he hear that? How did she see that?” Stuff travels so fast, man, it’s like word of mouth so it feels good you know when you got Drake quoting the lyrics.

Did you have any idea that your record was already having that kind of impact, where someone at Drake’s level was listening to it and quoting you? “Try Me” popped off really fast, in part due to Drake posting its lyrics on Instagram.

While in New York City in late October, Dej Loaf spoke to Billboard about how she got so big, so fast, and why “Try Me” isn’t the start and end of her budding career. 24) and is currently at work on her major label debut, releasing in 2015. After releasing her Sell Sole mixtape last month, serving as the follow-up to her 2012 debut mixtape Just Do It, the red-hot rapper, who uses hardships like her father’s death and severe asthma as fuel, will next be featured on Eminem’s Shady XV compilation (due Nov.

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