Yung Miami Is Ready for Her Solo Debut Thanks to ‘Spend Dat’: ‘People Are About to Eat Their Words’

As the first weeks of summer began to swelter, Yung Miami thought she had finally finished recording her long-awaited debut album.

Then “Spend Dat” upended her plans.

The infectious, pro-scammer anthem that she “always knew” would be a hit soundtracked the season, making its way from the New York Knicks’ locker room, where the song blared in a post-NBA Finals celebration captured on social media, to the Billboard charts, topping Rap Airplay for five weeks across July and August.

Now, the MC from Opa-locka, Fla. — part of greater Miami — has her sights set on owning the fall, too.

The 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 — including J.

White, Cheeze Beatz and Go Grizzly — curating “one big family” to help craft the album across recording sessions in Atlanta and Miami.

“I’m finally in a safe spot, and the energy is great,” she says.

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81 on the Billboard Hot 100 .

That buzzy track, which adapted The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Just Playing (Dreams)” from a woman’s perspective, laid the foundation for the pair of songs that, half a decade later, would formally introduce her solo era: “Tea Time” and “News Flash,” both of which arrived this February.

Neither earned a fraction of the commercial success “Spend Dat” has accrued, but they both helped Yung Miami reprogram listeners who, as she tells it, called her “the outcast” of City Girls and claimed that she “couldn’t rap” — allegations she never let get to her.

“I’m the first successful person that came out of our family; I do this for my kids and my mom and my brothers and sisters,” she says.