'Love wearing black, you should see my closet,' goes the song. The perfect moment seemed designed by the rap gods themselves (or at least 'Yeezus,' if you are one of the believers). The post-which quoted the lyrics to DeJ's song 'Try Me' from her mixtape Just Do It-generated mass exposure for the relatively unknown artist. The opportunity to quit practically came overnight, thanks to a casual Instagram post by the rapper Drake about six months months ago. 'Once I quit, I knew I didn't want to go back. 'I always knew that's not what I wanted to do,' says DeJ casually. Working a 9-to-5 as a janitor at a Chrysler plant, she didn't want to be caught up in Detroit's automobile 'plant life.'

Clad in her signature shades and crisp white, she moves with a swagger that says, 'Try me.'ĭeJ's road to superstardom is a Cinderella story only the Motor City could tell.

She arrived to her BLAC cover shoot in a bright hoodie, sweats and sneaks-her mom trailing not far behind, like a chaperone.īut it's when the pint-sized Trimble gets in front of the camera lens that she becomes DeJ Loaf, the artist who hijacked our playlists and views on women in rap last year. At a petite 5-foot-2, the 23-year-old can easily pass unnoticed in a crowd as not much more than a little girl. Or being the newest rap giant out of Detroit, DeJa Trimble isn't very big.

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