Who Is She? Dej Loaf, your new favorite rapper. And then she switched out her fur for a gold jacket and brought out two-thirds of The Lox (Jadakiss and Styles P) and Remy Ma to perform verses on “Try Me.”Īs Dej Loaf closed out the evening with her verse from her hit, the New York rappers looked on, proudly, onstage behind her. The blessing from older artists to newer ones is still an important tradition in hip-hop, and last night was no different. What makes it all the more interesting is that Dej isn’t even from New York. And then she brought out her mom and they danced. But with an ease, she won over the crowd with her set. And understand her, even as she went through new music - always a treacherous task as a new artist. Standing in the back, you could occasionally lose sight of her.

It wasn’t what you expected for the first show by the latest rapper to be anointed the “next big thing,” mainly off the strength of her soothing-yet-aggressive first single, “Try Me.”īut by the time she hit the stage - pocket-size as ever and wearing a fur, bucket hat, and carrying a bottle of Hennessy - the room was packed. For the hour leading up to her set, the venue - Santos Party House - was moderately full. As a part of New York’s annual CMJ Music Marathon, Vice’s music channel, Noisey , brought rapper-of-the-moment Dej Loaf to headline its showcase. Tuesday night, one of the great musical rites of passage took place in Lower Manhattan: the first New York show.

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