PERSONAL TOP 10: DOJA CAT
Get into it (yuh).
Doja Cat (famously born one week before the Alternative Music artist known as KIRU) is a global force in Pop music, who came in during a time we needed her most.
ORIGINS + CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
Born Amalaratna Zandile Dlamini, the artist has grown to become an American music artist known for her humour and memability as well as her long list of radio-ready horny hits, but Doja Cat has made sure to keep in touch with her roots. Regarding the release of her 2014 EP, “Purrr!” and the early years of her career in general, Doja has credited the Hindu culture of her upbringing alongside Japanese culture as sources of inspiration.
Doja Cat was born to Jewish American mother, Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer, who was a painter and loves to sing. Her father, who was not around during her childhood, is a professional actor. Doja has shared in the past that she’s taken a little bit of everything from them in terms of talent and skill, as she herself is a rapper, a singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and dancer among other things.
Similar to The Weeknd, Doja dropped out of school as a teenager, experimented with drugs and focused on building her music career. As mentioned in HipHopScriptures;
“Doja Cat has described life after dropping out…
