DeJ Loaf
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DeJ Loaf in 2015
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| Birth name | Deja Trimble |
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April 8, 1991 Detroit, Michigan |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | Columbia |
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| Website | dejloafmusic |
Deja Trimble (born April 8, 1991), better known by her stage name Dej Loaf (stylized as DeJ Loaf), is an American rapper, singer and songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. She began her music career in 2011, and released her debut mixtape Just Do It in 2012. In October 2014, she released her second mixtape, Sell Sole.
DeJ Loaf rose to greater popularity in 2014 with her single "Try Me", which initially attained viral internet popularity and peaked at number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was certified Gold on April 3, 2015 in the US.
She was chosen as part of the XXL magazine 2015 Freshman Class.
Deja Trimble was born on April 8, 1991, raised on the Eastside of the Detroit, Michigan. As a child, she often listened to music with her parents and grandmother, ranging "from 2Pac, Rakim and Miles Davis." Her father was killed when she was four years old. A self-described "good kid and a decent student", who mostly kept to herself, she began writing her own original music at the age of 9. In 2009, she graduated from the Southeastern High School in Detroit, Michigan, playing basketball at the 'junior varsity' level, and she later attended at the Saginaw Valley State University to begin studying nursing for three semesters, before deciding to focus full-time on her music career.
In 2011, Dej Loaf began her career as a hip hop artist. Her stage name 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. In 2013, she released her first official mixtape, Just Do It.. That mixtape attracted the attention of a fellow Detroit-native rapper SAYITAINTTONE. She was later signed to his indie record label, called IBGM (I Been Gettin' Money) under with his management team. In July 2014, she released her track, called "Try Me" (produced by DDS) as a single, which rose her to the viral popularity, after Canadian hip hop recording artist Drake quoted lyrics from the song in his Instagram post. In October 2014, she signed a major record deal to Columbia Records. After signing a deal, she released her second official mixtpe, called Sell Sole. That mixtape was given an "A–" by music critic Robert Christgau, who wrote in his review for Vice, "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."
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