Deja Monét Trimble, best known by her stage name Dej Loaf (sometimes spelled DeJ Loaf), was born on April 8, 1991, in Detroit, Michigan. She is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. She started her musical career in 2011, and in 2012, “Just Do It” was the title of her first single. She released Sell Soul, her second mixtape, in October 2014.
Dej Loaf started her hip-hop music career in 2011. Her stage name is a combination of her first name, Deja, and the word “loafer,” as she had a strong interest in Air Jordans as a child. In 2013, she released her debut mixtape, Just Do It. SAYITAINTONE, a rapper who is also from Detroit, became interested in that mixtape. She then became a member of his management group and was signed to his own record company, IBGM (I Been Gettin’ Money). She launched the single “Try Me” (produced by DDS) in July 2014, which propelled her to viral fame. Drake, a Canadian hip-hop recording artist, paraphrased song lyrics in an Instagram post.
She inked a significant record deal with Columbia Records in October 2014. She released Sell Soul, her second official mixtape, soon after agreeing to the arrangement. “What’s irresistible is the form-content disparity—a rapper who brags so un-macho, a rapper whose greed is so explicitly for her family, a rapper who’s ‘Grindin” at music. Plus her flow is a brook, her producer respects her space, and her two sex rhymes are into it and into it more,” wrote music critic Robert Christgau in his Vice review, awarding the mixtape a “A.”
