"It kind of caught way," Dej tells Radio.com over the phone from Detroit, "and changed my life." That is the understatement of the year. Besides a handful of cool kids in Oakland, Calif., who took to the track immediately, it took two months for most others to catch on, including Drake, who co-signed the track when he posted the line "Love wearing black you should see my closet" on his Instagram.

"He's one of the best artists of our time, it's crazy," Dej says. "I mean, how did he even hear it? I was definitely like, 'Wow.'" Soon Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant was tweeting about the song, Kylie Jenner was shouting it out on Instagram and every rapper from Wiz Khalifa to T.I. was jumping on a remix of the track, which was simply inspired by a trip to the mall.

"I was walking around shopping and I saw people staring at me and recorded the chorus on a voice memo. It was playful," she explains, "like, 'Why do you keep looking at me like you want to kill me?'�I didn't want it to promote violence or negativity, but it was something I felt. Music to me is my diary. It lets me express how I feel."

It was getting Remy Ma to lay down a verse for the official remix of "Try Me" though that made Dej feel like she had really made it. "[Remy Ma] just makes like dope music. She really has bars," Dej says. "She just got out of prison, but if she didn't have to do that time she would have had her place in the game. I think she still does, but I think that definitely effected what she could have been."

Dej Loaf - real name Deja Trimble - grew up in the Detroit projects, but had no interest in becoming another statistic. Her father was killed when she was only four years old, so she was raised by her mom, who has always been supportive of her music. Dej's mom even joined her onstage at her first show in New York City earlier this month. Dej is also very close to her two brothers, the eldest of which is her personal hairdresser. "He's the only one who can do it right," she says, before noting she'd like to give other members of her family jobs in her camp in the future.

Dej says she was a shy kid who understood the difference between right and wrong. "I was kind of uptight, a loner, music was a tool," she says. "I was the serious girl and everyone wondered, 'Why she in the house? Why she never come out? Why she doesn't come to the parties?' Now they see me and they see I kind of saved myself from a lot of stuff I could have gotten into."

Dej just dropped the Sell Soul mixtape and is already getting ready to work on her debut album, set to be released on Columbia Records - home to Beyonc�, John Legend and now, Dej Loaf.