The track’s beat keeps switching up, with a sample of the Clipse classic “Grindin'” coming in and out.
On “Friday Night Cypher,” Royce and Eminem return, but most of the song belongs to the loud, hungry voices of the Detroit underground, including Sada Baby, Boldy James, Drego, and Payroll Giovanni, as well as relatively prominent national figures like 42 Dugg and Tee Grizzley. (They all performed it live in Detroit later that year.) Right now, Detroit has the best underground rap scene in the country, and Big Sean has been paying attention. Everybody,” the 2015 single that Big Sean recorded with fellow Detroit rappers Eminem, Danny Brown, DeJ Loaf, Royce Da 5’9″, and Trick Trick. It’s a sort of follow-up to “ Detroit Vs. “Friday Night Cypher,” it turns out, is 10 minutes long. But the song that immediately grabbed everyone’s attention is track 19, “Friday Night Cypher,” which features 11 different Detroit rappers, including Eminem. And as previously reported, the album also has guest appearances out the ass: Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle, Lil Wayne, Travis Scott, Diddy, Young Thug. We’ve already posted the early single “ Deep Reverence,” a collaboration with the late Nipsey Hussle.
The new album is huge - 21 songs, 74 minutes, an insane number of guests. Two four-song EPs, It's a Set Up! and No Saint, were released within weeks of each other in May of that year, all of which set the scene for the fall arrival of the Sell Sole II mixtape.Today, Big Sean releases his new album Detroit 2, the sequel to his 2012 mixtape Detroit. The next new music from Loaf would be the low-lit R&B-dazzled single "Bubbly," which arrived in February 2020. That record was slow to materialize, and in 2018 she released the six-song EP Go DeJ Go Vol. Later that year, a pair of singles, "No Fear" and "Big Ole Boss," from her forthcoming debut album appeared.
She issued the mixtape All Jokes Aside in 2016, followed by Fuck a Friend Zone, a mixtape created in collaboration with Jacquees, in 2017. In 2015, Loaf released the #AndSeeThatsTheThing EP along with the hit single "Back Up" featuring Big Sean. After a handful of headlining gigs, she closed out 2014 by opening for fan Erykah Badu at Detroit's Fox Theater. "We Good," also produced by DDS, was issued as her second major-label single. Columbia's official release of "Try Me" reached the Top Ten of Billboard's Hot Rap Songs chart. Everybody" beside fellow Detroiters Eminem, Royce da 5'9", Big Sean, Danny Brown, and Trick Trick. (She did approve of a version that featured a verse from Wiz Khalifa.)ĭeJ Loaf signed to Columbia, issued a second mixtape, and appeared on the Aftermath release "Detroit vs. The platinum-selling star's acknowledgment increased DeJ's profile exponentially and set off a wave of unauthorized versions from fellow rappers. In July 2014, two years after she released her first mixtape, she uploaded "Try Me," a low-key, melodic track produced by Ypsilanti native DDS, which caught the attention of Drake, who referenced it on Instagram. Through a period that included a few semesters of attending Saginaw Valley State and working as a janitor at a Chrysler factory, she continued to develop her talent but didn't gain much traction. At some point she established her stage name, with DeJ pronounced similar to "beige" and Loaf a reference to her footwear preference. In high school, after she quit playing basketball at the junior varsity level, she began to take music more seriously. She grew up on the east side of Detroit and started writing lyrics at a young age. DeJ Loaf showed up on other artists' tracks often, and released her music mostly in the form of short EPs and mixtapes like 2020's Sell Sole II.ĭeJ Loaf was born Deja Trimble in 1991. Her bulletproof lyrical presence attracted the attention of stars, earning a co-sign from Drake for her breakthrough single "Try Me" in 2014 and a featured verse on the Eminem-led all-star Detroit anthem "Detroit vs. Detroit rapper DeJ Loaf has brought powerful rhymes and R&B smoothness to multiple viral hits, beginning in the mid-2010s.
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