Doja Cat rose from viral novelty track buzz to mainstream superstar with he… Read Full Bio ↴Doja Cat rose from viral novelty track buzz to mainstream superstar with her smooth, hypnotic, R&B-flecked pop songs of sexuality, friendship, and personal power. She gained some significant attention with her early releases, but it was her 2019 sophomore effort, Hot Pink, that took her to the top of the Hot 100. Subsequent charting singles and collaborations with SZA and Saweetie further solidified her star power, and made the arrival of her 2021 album Planet Her all the more hotly anticipated. A number two Billboard 200 hit, Planet Her also earned several Grammy nominations. Singles followed, including her savvy 2022 cover of Hole's "Celebrity Skin," 2022's "Vegas" off the Elvis soundtrack, and 2023's trip-hop-inflected "Attention," all of which spotlighted Doja's adventurous, genre-crossing sensibilities. The latter track and "Paint the Town Red" appeared on her fourth album, 2023's Scarlet, which found her digging deep into her rap and hip-hop roots and became her third consecutive album to hit the Top Ten of the Billboard 200. Doja Cat was born Amala Zandile Dlamini in 1995 in Tarzana, California, the daughter of South African actor Dumisani Dlamini and painter Deborah Elizabeth Sawyer. After moving to New York for a few years, she returned to California with her mother. As a child, she studied piano and took tap, ballet, and jazz dance lessons. She also discovered surfing and breakdancing. By her teens, she was teaching herself to sing and listening to an eclectic mix of hip-hop, indie rock, R&B, and electronic music. Doja also began recording songs on her computer and in 2014 released her debut EP, Purrr! She quickly found herself with a viral hit with the track "So High." More singles followed, including the languid "Nunchucks" and "No Police," each one grabbing attention online. Another single, "Mooo!," arrived in 2018 and quickly went viral. On the heels of that success, Doja Cat issued her full-length debut album, Amala, which found her expanding upon her dreamy, meme-friendly sound with more hip-hop-, pop-, and R&B-infused tracks, including "Candy" and "Roll with Us." In 2019, she issued an expanded version of Amala that added the singles "Juicy" and "Tia Tamara," featuring Rico Nasty. Her sophomore album, Hot Pink, was quick to follow; with features from Smino, Gucci Mane, and Tyga, the 2019 LP leaned more into the sexually wry aspects of her ever-shifting persona. A Top Ten hit on the Billboard 200, the album's fifth single, "Say So," pushed her even further up the charts. After making a steady rise in the Hot 100 at the start of 2020, the multi-platinum track finally hit number one in May, boosted by a Nicki Minaj remix. After picking up a couple of American Music Awards, Doja carried the momentum from her breakout year into 2021. She began appearing alongside established celebrities more frequently, adding a guest feature to Saweetie's single "Best Friend," contributing to an Ariana Grande remix with Megan Thee Stallion, and releasing the SZA-assisted single "Kiss Me More." All of this led up to the June 2021 release of her third full-length studio album, Planet Her. It featured guest spots from Young Thug, the Weeknd, JID, and others, and its cover art was shot by photographer David LaChapelle. The album, which reached number two on the Billboard 200 and topped the R&B albums chart, also garnered Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. In February 2022, Doja hit number 18 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart with a cover of Hole's "Celebrity Skin," which featured lyrics reworked by her and Courtney Love. That same year, she reached the Top Ten of the Hot 100 with "Vegas," her contribution to the soundtrack to director Baz Luhrmann's Elvis biopic. In June 2023, she debuted the '90s trip-hop-inspired "Attention" as the first track released off her fourth studio album, Scarlet. Another song, "Paint the Town Red," followed that August as the official first single. Arriving that September, the album found Doja balancing her pop-R&B style with tracks that embraced her rap and hip-hop roots. It featured production by a handful of artists, including Earl on the Beat, D.A. Got That Dope, and Y2K, among others. A Top Five album on both the Billboard 200 and Rap Albums charts, Scarlet also earned several Grammy nominations, including Best Pop Solo Performance for "Paint the Town Red" and Best Rap Song for "Attention."

Do It Right
Doja Cat Lyrics

What's that sound like to you? (Oh)
I don't know, man (this one sounds like a remix, oh, oh)
City, Big Latto (oh)
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Period

Yeah, said I'm not kissin' nobody, boy, I got my lipgloss on
Shut up (hush), why you talkin' when you know that this my song?
This ain't really the night to blow me up, I ditched my phone
Five shots, ready to party, throwin' it back, it's principle

Throwin' it back like fishin' pole, throwin' it back like fishin' pole
All of your junk like, physical
That's just how we do it, not a rhyme or a reason
We signin' broads in the front while you look off in the bleachers
We pullin' up the way we do to keep the audience tweetin'
The farther we goin' up, it's like the harder they reachin'
If you see my titties, I tell 'em record it and keep it
A couple twins sittin' pretty, no Victoria Secret (yeah, come on)

Yeah, I beat my face (beat my face)
Movin' fast 'cause the Uber on the way (on the way)
Takin' pictures, make sure you can't see no lace (see no lace)
That wig secure like the money in a safe (in a safe)
I look like bae (look like bae)
Now I'm on the way (on the way)
Let you know when I'm 'bout a mile away (mile away)
When I'm outside, please don't make me wait (make me wait)
The party startin' when we pull up to the gate (to the gate)
Girl, we so late

I'm just with the crew
We ain't out here lookin' for boo (no, we not)
'Cause some nights be better with you (yeah, come on, okay)
It's a homies-only kind of mood
And tonight, we on a hundred (what's up?)
One hundred (uh-huh)
No drama, no baby mamas, keepin' it cute (come on)

Ooh, ooh
That's just what I do, do, do
And that's just how we do it, do it, do it
And you could do it too, ooh, ooh, ooh

I pull up foreign (skrrt), with my friends
AMG (yep), on a Benz
Ride or die (ride or die), 'til the end ('til the end)
I be cute, how we look? Settin' trends (period)
These my queens, these my girls (girls)
I don't do pretend (no)
Ice check, wrist check, Patek on ten (ice)
Big rocks, big bags, waist be lookin' slim (ow)
She keep lookin' at us but I know she can't swim (City)

We out tonight probably
City Girls, Chloe, Halle
Niggas on our body (we got that)
Number-one box like Roddy
We just here to party (yeah)
Taste test, these niggas salty
Text that nigga probably, but he never see my body (at all)
This is what I do (I do)
I'm with my crew (my crew)
Don't call me, call Tyrone, Erykah Badu
Lace on like I'm from an island
No, I'm not foreign, I drive 'em
Skrrt, skrrt, all my bitches stay ridin'
Stewardess, my relationship private (period)

Ooh, ooh
That's just what I do, do, do
And that's just how we do it
Yeah, that's just how we do it (uh, 'Latto)
Yeah, you could do it too, ooh, ooh, ooh

Do it now, lookin' good
Make him spend it like he should
Rollin' 'Woods, bustin' juggs
Love them niggas from the hood (yeah)
Nothin' about me basic
And my body stacked like my savings
Rappin' 'bout that pussy power got the whole game intimidated (ha)
Yeah, I make him do it, do it
Nails on fleek, get into it
Money talk, yeah, I speak fluent
So the bag what I'm pursuin'
Toes white, lace right
I look too pretty to fight
And it's tight, I'm his type
They say lil' baby a bite
Thirty-inch bundles with the bayang (bayang)
'Latto got the block hot just like Lil Wayne
Classy like Chloe and Halle, nasty like Megan
Losin' me, you drop the queen like blackjack in Vegas ('Latto)

Ooh, ooh (you like it)
That's just what I do, do, do (you like it, don't you?)
And that's just how we do it, do it, do it (you like it, you like it, don't you?)
And you could do it too, ooh, ooh (you can do it too)

Oh, oh, oh, I been lookin' for tonight
Girl, lookin' fly, we so high
Got diamonds all over, we shine
Yeah, you know we like the touchin' and the lovin'
And we don't need no husband in the function
So I keep it comin', yeah, you know I be ready
So give me the lovin', oh

Drop that ass to the floor (to the floor)
Here's to the pretty young thing with the big ol' goals
We don't gotta act nice, we don't gotta act right
We never causin' no fights, but I'll still give you the smoke
Yeah, I smile, you caught my eye, eye
But, boy, I ain't worried 'bout you tonight
We goin' on and on, they keep on playin' this song
And we gon' do it, do it, do it 'til the early morn'

Lyrics © STREAMCUT MEDIA, LLC, BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC

Written by: Alyssa Michelle Stephens, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Broderick Hughey, Caresha Brownlee, Chloe Elizabeth Bailey, Halle Lynn Bailey, Jatavia Johnson, Nicholaus Joseph Williams, Scott Spencer Storch, Victoria Monet Mccants

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