That's also why you have no reason to be bitter about the next person's success if you're just doing your thing," she says. "I salute all the females doing their thing who are actually good and make good music. True to herself: As for Dej, she's not looking to start bad blood with others - she's confident in her abilities as an artist. They're just doing it because they love it." So when you have another woman who comes along and she's doing her music, they get a little iffy about it, and they'll be like, 'I'm the queen.' It's always been like that, as opposed to men. "It's sad to say, but it's a special thing to be in that position: to be one of the best and be a woman at the same time. "It's a male-dominated field, so when women can do music just as great as men, they don't want to share that," Dej says. Women in rap: Despite the uptick in her own career - signed to Columbia Records in October and hard at work on her debut album now - Dej thinks the main problem still plaguing many female rappers is the unfortunate idea there can only be one. "I wasn't sure what I was going to do next." "It just wasn't me, it was terrible," Dej says. I was a loner." After graduating high school and enrolling in nursing school, she dropped out after three semesters and tried to focus on music, working odd jobs at Tim Hortons and as a Chrysler plant janitor to pay the bills. I just did what I did, I wrote music and played basketball. "I didn't really have the urge to go do stuff that I knew I wasn't supposed to. "I just tried to stay out of trouble as much as possible," says Dej, 23, who started writing lyrics when she was 9 and whose surname stems from her love of loafers shoes. Making ends meet: Dej was raised by a single mom in the Detroit projects with her two brothers (her father was killed when she was 4). Released this past summer, the song just hit No. "It could've been a good thing they were looking, but I took it bad, so I stopped in the mall, pulled out my phone and recorded a voice memo." That brief note soon became the sing-songy chorus of her melodic yet vicious Try Me, which she recorded just days after over a DDS-produced beat. Walking around with her friend one day, "people were looking at us like they wanted to fight or something," the rapper (real name: Deja Trimble) says. Worth a Try: For Dej Loaf, even a stroll through the mall can turn into a breakthrough hit.
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