50 Fun Facts About Doja Cat

In which US city was Doja Cat born?

Los Angeles. She was born in Tarzana, a suburb named after Tarzan because the jungle hero's author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, once owned a ranch there.

Doja Cat's father Dumisani Dlamini starred as Crocodile in which musical?

Sarafina!. He played Crocodile on Broadway and again in the 1992 film, then went home to South Africa, and Doja Cat has said she grew up without ever meeting him.

Which jazz musician was spiritual director of the ashram where Doja Cat lived as a child?

Alice Coltrane. The jazz star led the Sai Anantam Ashram in the Santa Monica Mountains, where Doja Cat wore head scarves and sang devotional songs but found life "a little too controlled".

At the 2023 Met Gala, Doja Cat came dressed as the pet cat of which late fashion designer?

Karl Lagerfeld. She arrived as his cat Choupette in a prosthetic nose and a cat-eared gown, and answered a red-carpet interviewer in meows.

Doja Cat dropped out of high school at 16, citing her struggles with what?

ADHD. "It felt like I was stuck in one spot and everybody else was progressing constantly," she said of the school she left in eleventh grade to make music.

Which 2012 SoundCloud upload first drew label attention to Doja Cat?

So High. She recorded it at home, and after it took off on SoundCloud it was repackaged as her first commercial single.

Which software did Doja Cat teach herself to make music on after leaving school?

GarageBand. She ripped beats from YouTube, tracked her vocals over them at home and posted the songs to SoundCloud.

Under which label executive did Doja Cat sign with Kemosabe Records at 17?

Dr. Luke. He signed her after a home-made SoundCloud track caught his attention, but her managers say the label then put little behind her for years.

What was the title of Doja Cat's 2014 debut EP?

Purrr!. The Fader heard "spacey, eastern-influenced R&B" in it, and she has said the Hindu imagery around its single drew on her childhood on an ashram.

During a spell of writer's block, Doja Cat turned down a verse on which 2017 Billie Eilish song?

Bellyache. Eilish asked her in their SoundCloud days, but Doja Cat "just couldn't think of anything to write" and later said she was glad to see the song blow up.

What was the title of Doja Cat's 2018 debut album?

Amala. She gave it her own first name, then disowned it: "I don't think it was a finished album," she said of a record made while she was partying.

Which self-made 2018 novelty video turned Doja Cat into a viral meme?

Mooo!. A cow-print costume sparked the joke, which she wrote live on Instagram and filmed in her bedroom, and its success convinced her label she was marketable.

Which rapper features on Doja Cat's 2019 single "Tia Tamera"?

Rico Nasty. The hook namechecks twin sitcom stars Tia and Tamera Mowry, and the video sends both rappers onto a '90s game show against their own lookalikes.

Which 2018 Doja Cat single became a sleeper hit after a TikTok dance challenge in late 2019?

Candy. The challenge lifted a song from her overlooked debut album onto the Hot 100 more than a year and a half after its release.

Which rapper's verse on the "Juicy" remix gave Doja Cat her first Hot 100 entry?

Tyga. The week the remix charted, her debut album also reached the Billboard 200 for the first time, almost a year and a half after its release.

What was the title of Doja Cat's second album, released in November 2019?

Hot Pink. Its track "Say So" went viral on TikTok after the album came out and became her first number one hit.

In May 2020 Doja Cat's "Say So" remix topped the Hot 100 ahead of which Megan Thee Stallion remix?

Savage. With Beyoncé on its remix, it made the first chart on which four Black women held the top two places, and two weeks later it took number one itself.

The video for Doja Cat's "Say So" is styled after which musical era?

Disco. The glittering '70s-themed clip also gave a cameo to Haley Sharpe, the TikToker whose dance routine had turned the song into a hit.

Doja Cat's "Boss Bitch" appeared on the soundtrack of which film?

Birds of Prey. "Boss Bitch" opens the Harley Quinn film's soundtrack album, which features only women vocalists to match its all-female gang.

At the 2020 MTV Europe Music Awards, Doja Cat reworked her hit "Say So" in which genre?

Metal. The guitar solo lifted a passage from Australian guitarist Plini's "Handmade Cities" without permission, and she later sent him an apology.

Which oldie was mashed up with Doja Cat's "Streets" for a viral 2021 TikTok challenge?

Put Your Head on My Shoulder. A TikTok user spliced Paul Anka's 1959 ballad onto "Streets" for the Silhouette Challenge, and the craze sent the 2019 album track to number 16.

Who features on Doja Cat's 2021 single "Kiss Me More"?

SZA. Its chorus borrows the melody of Olivia Newton-John's 1981 hit "Physical", which earned that song's two writers a credit.

Which Grammy did Doja Cat's "Kiss Me More" win at the 2022 awards?

Best Pop Duo Performance. The award, in full Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, was announced while Doja Cat was in the bathroom, and she ran back to join her duet partner, who was on crutches.

What is the title of Doja Cat's third studio album?

Planet Her. She invented the planet as a place where, in her words, all the species of space can live in harmony, and built the album's visuals around it.

Which artist joined Doja Cat on "You Right"?

The Weeknd. She had finished the song alone, but he became "obsessed" with it and took over one of her verses, a year after she guested on his "In Your Eyes" remix.

Which award show did Doja Cat host in 2021, her first presenting gig?

MTV Video Music Awards. She took a break from hosting to perform suspended in mid-air, and went home with two awards of her own.

In which TV series did Doja Cat guest-star as Lil Dicky's romantic interest?

Dave. In the 2021 episode "Somebody Date Me" she plays herself, the pop star he matches with on an exclusive dating app and then texts all day.

Doja Cat's 2021 Pepsi ad reenacted a song from which musical film?

Grease. She played "Bad Sandy" in a glittering black leather jacket and re-recorded "You're the One That I Want" with a slicker R&B feel.

Doja Cat's Super Bowl LVI Taco Bell ad featured her cover of which Hole song?

Celebrity Skin. Courtney Love helped rewrite the lyrics for the ad, in which Doja Cat and friends break out of a clown college.

Doja Cat's song "Vegas" was the lead single for which 2022 film?

Elvis. "Vegas" is built on "Hound Dog" as Big Mama Thornton first recorded it in 1952, sung by Shonka Dukureh, who plays Thornton in the film.

Which British rapper named a 2022 hit after Doja Cat?

Central Cee. "Doja" flirts with her in its lyrics over a sample of Eve and Gwen Stefani's "Let Me Blow Ya Mind", and took off on TikTok within a week.

A cancelled 2022 show in which country preceded Doja Cat's "music is dead" tweets?

Paraguay. Floods wiped out the Asunciónico festival, fans accused her of ignoring them, and she tweeted "I quit"; two days later she was back, saying she owed her fans a lot.

What was the working title of the Doja Cat album that became Scarlet?

Hellmouth. After announcing it in March 2023 she trolled fans with joke titles and genres, tweeting that the record was now "rock/spoken word", before settling on Scarlet.

Which single gave Doja Cat her first solo number one in both the US and UK?

Paint the Town Red. It loops Dionne Warwick's 1964 hit "Walk On By", and its artwork and video grew out of paintings Doja Cat made herself.

Which actress co-starred in Doja Cat's "Demons" video?

Christina Ricci. She plays the woman whose house is haunted by a demonic Doja Cat, in a video trailed with an '80s-style horror-film teaser.

Which two rappers supported Doja Cat on the Scarlet Tour?

Doechii and Ice Spice. They opened her first arena tour, a step delayed since the pandemic scrapped the tour she had planned for 2020.

Doja Cat's deluxe edition Scarlet 2 Claude is named after the villain of which story?

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She revealed the title, first given as Scarlet 2: Claude Frollo, while dressed in a full gecko costume on The Therapy Gecko podcast.

Which Australian countdown did Doja Cat top in 2024, a first for a female rapper?

Triple J Hottest 100. Listeners voted her to the top with a song she had not much liked at first: she told Apple Music it reminded her of Target, Macy's and Gap.

What is the title of Doja Cat's fifth album, released September 2025?

Vie. Two years after tweeting "no more pop" and making a rap album, she returned with a record built on 1980s-style synths and funk bass.

What was the lead single from Doja Cat's fifth album, previewed in a Marc Jacobs campaign?

Jealous Type. She slipped it into the fashion campaign months early, then told a Met Gala livestream that one of the album's singles was already playing in the advert.

Which festival did Doja Cat headline in April 2024, closing its final night?

Coachella. She left out hits such as "Say So" and instead brought on A$AP Rocky and Teezo Touchdown for songs that had never been played live.

Doja Cat featured with Raye on "Born Again" from which Blackpink member's solo album?

Lisa. Weeks later the three singers shared the Oscars stage, not for their single but for a medley of James Bond themes.

Doja Cat's stage name came from a cat and what else?

A cannabis strain. She has since given up weed and says she has tried to change the name more than once, only for an old manager to talk her out of it.

Which rapper does Doja Cat pay tribute to on "Get Into It (Yuh)"?

Nicki Minaj. The track ends with Doja Cat thanking her by name and echoing a line from "Massive Attack", Minaj's 2010 debut single.

Which rapper's flow does Doja Cat say she imitates when a beat suits him?

Busta Rhymes. She told Elle she wanted to make rap "colorful" in his animated spirit, because the genre had become "very one dimensional".

Who wrote Doja Cat's entry for the 2021 Time 100 Next list?

Lil Nas X. He called her "an elite performer and an insanely hilarious influencer", and months later she guested on "Scoop" from his debut album.

Doja Cat was covered in 30,000 red crystals for which fashion house's 2023 Paris show?

Schiaparelli. The crystals were stuck on by hand in a session of nearly five hours, for a look called "Doja's Inferno" after the Dante poem that inspired the show.

In June 2020 Doja Cat donated $100,000 to a fund set up in whose memory?

Breonna Taylor. Doja Cat announced the gift on social media and urged her followers to donate too and to sign a petition in Taylor's name.

In 2022 Doja Cat asked which Stranger Things actor to put her in touch with his co-star Joseph Quinn?

Noah Schnapp. He posted their private messages on TikTok, she called that "weasel" behaviour on a livestream, and within days he said he had apologised.

Doja Cat was featured on "Motive" from which Ariana Grande album?

Positions. Grande then brought her back, alongside Megan Thee Stallion, for the remix of the album's "34+35", which climbed to number two on the Hot 100.