Doja Cat has hinted at one in all her largest solo hits being a “cash grab” whereas she was acting on stage not too long ago in Denver.
The Grammy-winning rapper referred to Hot Pink‘s smash “Say So” as a “cash grab” as she was egging the crowd on to sing along to her 2019 anthem.
“Come on cash grab,” she said.
Watch the clip below.
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The onstage comment was not the first time Doja has used that phrase to refer to her early work.
Back in May, the singer and rapper said in now-deleted tweets that some of her early work was made for the money.
“Planet Her and Hot Pink were cash-grabs and yall fell for it,” she wrote about her second and third albums. “now i can go disappear somewhere and touch grass with my loved ones on an island while yall weep for mediocre pop.”
“Say So” is one of Doja’s best-selling songs to this point. The sextuple-platinum observe arrived on 2019’s Hot Pink. Nicki Minaj hopped on the remix in 2020, which helped vault the observe to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“When I got that beat I went home and I locked myself in my room, and I was like: ‘Let me just open this up on Logic.’ I opened it up, I thought, I mumbled it, that’s how I began, and it just fell together really nicely, lyrically I feel like,” she advised MTV of the tune’s inception.
“I naturally write 70’s kind of more vintagey, funky music. I feel like that’s kind of my bag and I love it so much. It’s really fun to make.”
Doja Cat is presently on her Scarlet Tour. It rumbles by way of Texas this week, with reveals in Dallas, Austin and Houston.
The Scarlet Tour is Doja Cat’s first-ever area trek, and each Doechii and Ice Spice are alongside for the trip. The “Paint The Town Red” hitmaker had her twenty eighth birthday simply earlier than hitting the street, and was noticed attending Usher’s Las Vegas residency to kick off her celebration.
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