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Aug 3, 2016
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“I’m a fan of Nikki Minaj and I like what she did on the original ‘Chiraq’ with Lil Herb,” Dreezy speaks on the song that caught people's attention in 2014. “But I got the best bars in Chicago so it was only right for me to remix it and represent. The day my version of ‘ChiRaq’ came out her boyfriend texted us saying ‘You won’t last a week.’”

Here we are two years later and she is Apple's artist of the week for the last week of July and first week of August.

“Sometimes I wrote really dark, sad stories about rape, murder and violence or stories about rocky relationships,” she recalls. “I remember writing a poem about my grandma when she passed away. I was always telling other people’s stories weaved with mine. I saw and experienced a lot and had to mature at a young age. I expressed it all through my poetry.”

Dreezy recently was interviewed by HOT 97 and addressed the issue of being compared to Dej Loaf, Hip Hop Honors Female Edition, and working with Common.

“I know if I ever need to talk to someone, Common can give me some good, sound advice,” she says. “He has good intentions and doesn’t want anything from me.”

Common isn’t the only prominent artist checking for Dreezy. “A few females reached out when ‘ChiRaq’ took off: Rah Digga, Shawnna, Remy Ma, Tish Hyman and some others,” she says. “I’ve already done collabs with Tink, DeJ Loaf, and Chicago female MCs Sasha Go Hard and Katie Got Bandz. Sasha is like my sister. Our friendship started out from rapping but we’re like sisters now. Katie and I are really good friends, too. We support each other. There’s room for everybody. That’s how it’s supposed to be.”

(Interview Source)

“People started riding to school with it bumping in their cars,” she says, smiling. Her debut video for “Illest Bitch Alive,” released on YouTube, soon had upwards of 50,000 views. “I was doing numbers! I don’t know why! Soon I had my own clique,” she says.

Eventually, titans of the city’s drill-rap scene—King Louie, Lil Durk, and Lil Herb—were working with Dreezy. It was her remix of Nicki Minaj’s “Chi-Raq,” however, that cemented her career path. In quick succession, Common put her on his 2014 album Nobody’s Smiling, and Interscope signed her to a record deal.