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Behind the Band Name: How Weed and Felines Inspired Doja Cat

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Born on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini matured in the suburban areas of Los Angeles, in Tarzana, to a South African daddy and Jewish-American mom.


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By the time she was a teen, she was already launching her own music online and crafted a brand-new name for herself, one influenced by her preferred animals and weed.

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In 2012, Dlamini pulled the very first part of her brand-new name from her preferred stress of cannabis she liked to smoke in high school.

“I was heavily addicted to weed and weed culture,” said Doja Cat, “so when I began rapping I thought of the word ‘doja’ and how it sounds like a girl’s name.”

[RELATED: Top 10 Doja Cat Songs]

Though she no longer smokes, Doja Cat credits weed to a few of her success given that she was quite high while tape-recording her very first full-length album, Amalalaunched in 2018.

“My image was the pothead hippie girl,” she said, “and I’m not that.”

Cats and Art

The vocalist, songwriter, and manufacturer drew in the 2nd half of her name originated from her cat—and her love of felines, in basic, and their “artistic” quality. “I just put cat cos I like cats,” she included a 2019 interview.

The rap artist, who has animal cats frequently submits videos of them, in addition to pictures of herself and her music.

Purr!’

As a teen, Dlamini began launching music on SoundCloud, and after her tune “So High” went viral, she was signed at the age of 17 and launched her very first EP, Purr! not long after in 2014.

[RELATED: Doja Cat Launches ‘Planet Her’ Era With SZA-Featuring “Kiss Me More”]

Social Sensation

Knowing simply how to utilize social networks to her benefit early on, Doja Cat got a lot more traction after publishing her do it yourself video for the Amala track, “Mooo!” which she at first published as a joke in 2018. The video, which reveals Doja Cat dancing in a cow outfit singing Bitch I’m a cow, rapidly turned her into a meme star.

“It was a joke between me and my fans,” said the rap artist in 2018. “We started it on Instagram Live, just me and 60 other people, and we all had fun coming up with puns and metaphors.”

By 2019, Doja Cat struck her very first No. 1 with her own No. 1 single, “Say So,” including Nicki Minaj after the tune got traction on TikTok. Off Doja Cat’s 2nd album, Hot Pink“Say So” struck the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

Her Planet

In 2021, Doja Cat launched her 3rd album, Planet Her, which struck No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the R&B and Hip-Hop charts and got 8 Grammy elections, consisting of Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Album of the Year.

The rap artist won Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Kiss Me More,” including SZA. Planet Her likewise made Doja Cat an American Music Award for Favorite R&B Album.

Experimenting more with noise on Planet HerDoja Cat wished to walk around normal categories she utilized on her previous albums.

“I wanted to kind of go outside of what I understood [or] what I knew as pop aesthetic or rap aesthetic,” said Doja Cat of Planet Her. “I wished to rather actually take a trip beyond the world. When it pertains to the videos and option of words and tunes and mixes musically, I desired it to feel various. I desired it to feel otherworldly. So, I simply called it Planet Her.

Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for CELINE

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