Success with “Spend Dat” arrived after a period Yung Miami says looked very different behind closed doors. During an appearance on Way Up With Angela Yee, the former City Girls rapper described battling depression while trying to establish herself on her own, admitting that some days ended with her crying in bed instead of enjoying the career momentum audiences see now.
The struggle became especially difficult as she waited to see whether her solo music would connect. Miami pointed to “Tea Time,” released in February, as a record that did not receive the response she had hoped for. Without another task immediately in front of her, she found herself sinking further. “I had to keep working,” she told Yee, explaining that too much downtime could pull her into “that deep depression.” Her answer was often to book another studio session, putting herself around other people while returning to something she still loved doing. “But I ain’t gone lie, there was some days where I was just lying in the bed crying,” she said.
That makes the performance of “Spend Dat” particularly significant within her first sustained solo run. Released in April, the J. White Did It-produced single debuted at No. 66 on the Billboard Hot 100 before steadily climbing to No. 17, the highest position Miami has reached on the chart either solo or as part of City Girls. The song also became her first solo Top 40 hit, surpassing the No. 26 peak of City Girls’ “Act Up.”
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Miami and JT began concentrating on separate careers in 2024 after their final City Girls album, RAW, failed to generate the momentum of their earlier releases. Miami said at the time that the duo’s working relationship was no longer connecting the way it once had, while both women moved forward with individual projects. For Miami, that transition meant proving she could build something outside a partnership that had defined most of her career.
She now wants to document what that process actually looked like. Miami told Yee that she is working on a documentary covering the difficult stretches alongside the breakthroughs of her solo career. “It took so much to get here,” she said, adding that the happiness and confidence she feels now should not be mistaken for how she felt throughout the entire process.
Music is taking priority as she works toward her debut solo album. No release date for the album has been announced. For now, “Spend Dat” remains Miami’s biggest solo chart success, while the documentary she discussed with Yee is still in development.
