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\n\tAs the first weeks of summer began to swelter, Yung Miami thought she had finally finished recording her long-awaited debut album. Then \u201cSpend Dat\u201d upended her plans. The infectious, pro-scammer anthem that she \u201calways knew\u201d would be a hit soundtracked the season, making its way from the New York Knicks\u2019 locker room, where the song blared in a post-NBA Finals celebration captured on social media, to the Billboard<\/em> charts, topping Rap Airplay for five weeks across July and August. Now, the MC from Opa-locka, Fla. \u2014 part of greater Miami \u2014 has her sights set on owning the fall, too.<\/p>\n \n\tThe rapper born Caresha Brownlee, 32, will soon unveil that as-yet-untitled solo album, nine years after she and JT first burst onto the scene as City Girls. Over the past two-and-a-half years, Yung Miami has locked in with a team of writers and producers \u2014 including J.\u00a0White, Cheeze Beatz and Go\u00a0Grizzly \u2014 curating \u201cone big family\u201d to help craft the album across recording sessions in Atlanta and Miami. \u201cI\u2019m finally in a safe spot, and the energy is great,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tLucky Daye & Yung Miami to Headline Billboard\u2019s R&B Hip-Hop Live 2026\u00a0Concert\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tHere\u2019s What Dr. Dre Really Thinks About AI in Music\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \t\t\t\t\tDrake\u2019s Appearance at Ella Langley\u2019s Show Has Fans Wondering About a Collab\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n\tBefore beginning work on her solo set, Yung Miami famously held down City Girls throughout JT\u2019s incarceration for fraudulent credit card charges from 2018 to early 2020. (City Girls split in 2024 after a seven-year run, while both rappers remain supportive of each other\u2019s solo careers.) Yung Miami launched her solo career the year after JT\u2019s release with \u201cRap Freaks,\u201d which reached No.\u00a081 on the Billboard Hot\u00a0100. That buzzy track, which adapted The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s \u201cJust Playing (Dreams)\u201d from a woman\u2019s perspective, laid the foundation for the pair of songs that, half a decade later, would formally introduce her solo era: \u201cTea Time\u201d and \u201cNews Flash,\u201d both of which arrived this February.<\/p>\n \n\tNeither earned a fraction of the commercial success \u201cSpend Dat\u201d has accrued, but they both helped Yung Miami reprogram listeners who, as she tells it, called her \u201cthe outcast\u201d of City Girls and claimed that she \u201ccouldn\u2019t rap\u201d \u2014 allegations she never let get to her. \u201cI\u2019m the first successful person that came out of our family; I do this for my kids and my mom and my brothers and sisters,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m focusing on the people who want to see me win, because at the end of the day, it ain\u2019t gon\u2019 stop. I\u2019m not going away.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe calls \u201cNews Flash\u201d a reintroduction, while \u201cTea Time\u201d was meant to start the conversation and get a viral moment. \u201cIt was a cultural reset to show that I have influence. I had everybody clocking their fingers!\u201d And then came \u201cSpend Dat,\u201d which dropped in April and earned Yung Miami coveted cosigns from New York rap icons Fat Joe and Jadakiss, the latter of whom hailed the song as a \u201chit off rip.\u201d Thanks to its singalong hook, along with nuanced social media discourse concerning the lyrical depiction of the fast life in Miami and recent viral moments (like with the Knicks), \u201cSpend Dat\u201d has reached No.\u00a017 on the Hot\u00a0100, her highest entry on the chart \u2014 including her City Girls hits. According to Luminate, the single has earned over 83.8\u00a0million official on-\u00addemand U.S. streams through July\u00a030.<\/p>\n \n\tThe positive reception to \u201cSpend Dat\u201d didn\u2019t just inspire Yung Miami to trust her intuition \u2014 she insisted it become her album\u2019s lead single \u2014 it also pushed her to get back in the studio and reshape the project around a burgeoning, hometown-\u00adhonoring narrative. \u201cI wanted to go back to my roots and what inspires me about being from Miami; the culture and the music and the environment shaped me to be who I am today,\u201d she says. \u201cThis album is about everything I\u2019ve been through and pulling myself out of survival mode to get back to a space to create. I\u2019m definitely going there, but also having fun. I surprise myself whenever I listen to it; I cry, I dance, I\u2019m actually gagging myself. I really created an album! People are about to eat their words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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