65 Facts About Doja Cat

Doja Cat is well-versed in internet culture herself, and is famed for her absurdly humorous personality and online presence.

Doja Cat has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including one Grammy Award from sixteen nominations, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, and three MTV Video Music Awards.

Doja Cat was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2023.

Doja Cat's father has denied these claims, claiming that he has a "healthy" relationship with his daughter and that her management team had tried to block all his attempts to contact her out of the fear that they might lose her.

Doja Cat frequently skipped school to participate in online chatrooms.

Doja Cat has described life after dropping out of school as "messy", claiming that she slept on the floor and spent "all night and day" browsing the internet, looking for beats and instrumentals from YouTube which she downloaded and used to create her own music.

Doja Cat began her career in the Los Angeles underground hip-hop scene, performing at parties and cyphers, and connecting with rappers such as Busdriver, Ill Camille and VerBS, the latter of whom claims to have helped hone her craft and find her first gig.

Doja Cat introduced her to record producer Yeti Beats, who invited her to record at his studio in the neighbourhood of Echo Park, which served as "an oasis of sorts for Doja to escape from the turmoil at home".

In mid-2015, Doja Cat temporarily signed to OG Maco's label, OGG.

Doja Cat had started experiencing writer's block, which led her to decline American singer Billie Eilish's offer to feature on what would later become her popular 2017 single "Bellyache".

Doja Cat would stop releasing music for a while amid what she describes as a "creative limbo", which was influenced by her record labels not paying her much attention, as well as the effects of "finding herself" and smoking too much marijuana.

Doja Cat has since expressed strong disdain toward the record, claiming that it doesn't entirely represent her as an artist and that it isn't a "finished album" since she was constantly partying or high on marijuana during its recording.

In October 2019, Doja Cat released "Bottom Bitch", the second single from her second album.

Doja Cat later released the single "Boss Bitch" as part of the soundtrack for the 2020 film Birds of Prey.

Doja Cat performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in February 2020.

In March 2020, Doja Cat was set to embark on the Hot Pink Tour in support of the album, before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Doja Cat was featured on a remix of the Weeknd's single "In Your Eyes" in May 2020, as well as on the single "Shimmy" by rapper Lil Wayne from the deluxe version of his 2020 album Funeral.

Doja Cat released the music video for her single "Like That".

Doja Cat uploaded the demo song "Unisex Freestyle" to SoundCloud in late June 2020.

At the 20th BET Awards, Doja Cat was nominated for two awards, Best Female Hip Hop Artist and Video of the Year.

Doja Cat won the award for Push Best New Artist at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, where she performed a medley of the songs "Say So" and "Like That".

Doja Cat was credited as a lead artist on the remix for Chloe x Halle's song "Do It", which featured City Girls and Mulatto, the following month.

Doja Cat was featured alongside Australian singer Sia on the track "Del Mar" from Puerto Rican singer Ozuna's 2020 album Enoc, released in September.

In October 2020, Doja Cat was featured on American singer Bebe Rexha's single "Baby, I'm Jealous", the lead single from Rexha's second studio album, Better Mistakes.

Doja Cat was featured on the album track "Motive" from Ariana Grande's 2020 album Positions, which peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming both her highest debut and second-ever top 40 entry.

Doja Cat performed a metal rendition of "Say So" at the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony, where she won the award for Best New Act.

Doja Cat won the award for The New Artist of 2020 at the 46th People's Choice Awards.

On December 24,2020, Doja Cat released a series of videos on her YouTube channel named "Hot Pink Sessions" where she performed three songs twice with two different "looks".

Doja Cat was the fourth most-Googled musician of 2020 in the United States.

On January 7,2021, Doja Cat was featured on the single "Best Friend" by rapper Saweetie, and appeared in the accompanying music video.

Doja Cat was nominated for three awards at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards: herself for Best New Artist and "Say So" being nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Doja Cat revealed the title of her third studio album, Planet Her, in a March 2021 interview with V On April 10, the song "Kiss Me More" featuring SZA was released alongside a music video as the lead single for the album.

Doja Cat wrote that it was released in anticipation of the "more important" second single, which was confirmed to be "You Right" with the Weeknd.

Doja Cat officially announced the release of Planet Her and revealed its tracklist and album art via social media a few hours before the release of "Need to Know".

Doja Cat guest starred as the temporary romantic interest of American rapper and comedian Lil Dicky in the second season of the TV series Dave, which premiered on June 16,2021.

Doja Cat won the awards for Best Collaboration and Best Art Direction, among nominations for Artist of the Year, Video of the Year and Best Visual Effects.

Doja Cat was praised for her presenting abilities, with Pitchfork noting that she "reinvent[ed] award-show hosting".

Doja Cat featured alongside Saweetie on French Montana's song "Handstand" from his forth studio album They Got Amnesia.

In 2022, Doja Cat won the awards for Female Rapper of the Year and Performer of the Year at the 2022 XXL Awards.

Doja Cat received nominations for eight awards at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, the most for any female artist.

In February 2022, Doja Cat released a cover of the song "Celebrity Skin" by American rock band Hole, as part of a Taco Bell commercial in which she starred, and premiered it at the Super Bowl LVI.

Doja Cat contributed to the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann's biographical film Elvis with the song "Vegas", released on May 6,2022, as its lead single.

In June 2022, the track "I Like You " by Post Malone featuring Doja Cat was released as the third single from the former's fourth studio album, Twelve Carat Toothache.

Doja Cat later began sharing her experiences of career burnout, expressing her disdain for "unnecessary" obligations, while admitting that she was no longer enjoying her career.

Doja Cat continued to publicise her frustrations during a South American festival tour in March 2022.

In early 2023, Doja Cat began teasing her fourth studio album with the working title of Hellmouth; she would later clarify to Interview magazine that she did not have an album name yet, with the working title subject to potential change.

Doja Cat has cited Nicki Minaj as her biggest influence.

Doja Cat has named Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes as some of her biggest influences.

Additionally, Doja Cat has cited Rihanna, Beyonce, D'Angelo, Missy Elliott, Christina Aguilera, and Lil' Kim among her major influences.

Doja Cat claimed the era was a firm restart for her career, and the most "refined, chiseled" representation of herself.

Doja Cat is reported to be "eager to deflect interest in her personal life".

Doja Cat lived in a home in Beverly Hills, California, which she bought in 2021 for $2.2 million and sold in September 2022 for $2.5 million.

Doja Cat was in a brief open relationship with American musician Jawny from August 2019 until separating in February 2020.

In June 2020, Doja Cat donated $100,000 to the Justice for Breonna Taylor Fund, in support of Taylor's family.

In May 2022, Doja Cat opened up about her nicotine addiction on Twitter, and revealed that she required lancing of an infected tonsil caused by vaping and intended to pursue a tonsillectomy, consequently canceling her summer festival run and her opening act slot for the Weeknd's After Hours til Dawn Tour.

Doja Cat has been noted for being versatile in her music.

Doja Cat initially defended her past remarks but later issued a series of apologies for her words and has since deleted her tweets.

In March 2020, Doja Cat received backlash after saying on Instagram live that COVID-19 was "only a flu" and that she was not scared of it.

In May 2020, a 2015 song by Doja Cat titled "Dindu Nuffin" resurfaced.

Frequent users of the chat room later came forth and revealed that the nature of the chatroom was not specifically racist, saying that Doja Cat never said anything discriminatory in her conversations.

The next month, Plini reported that Doja Cat left him an apologetic message through social media.

In March 2022, Doja Cat threatened to quit music due to the backlash from an incident that occurred during her time in Paraguay.

Doja Cat did not come outside to meet with these fans and was consequently accused of being rude and apathetic.

In July 2022, Doja Cat experienced a texting privacy breach scandal with actor Noah Schnapp regarding actor Joseph Quinn.

Doja Cat has received many accolades throughout her career, including one Grammy Award, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, and an iHeartRadio Music Award.