Photo: Yung Miami & India.Arie | By Jack Irwin, People | India.Arie is sharing her thoughts on Yung Miami’s “Spend Dat.” As the 32-year-old City Girls rapper’s latest solo single climbs up the charts, India.Arie, 50, took to Threads this week to explain why she’s not a fan of the song and thinks its “mass acceptance” signifies a larger issue in culture.
Released in April, “Spend Dat” opens with a dedication to “all my scammers and my get-money bitches” and features lyrics about getting money and spending it. The song has already reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sparked a singalong in the crowd at the 2026 BET Awards when Yung Miami (whose real name is Caresha Brownlee) hit the stage as a presenter.
India.Arie (whose full name is India Arie Simpson) first commented on “Spend Dat” in response to a Threads post about the song’s success as well as Yung Miami’s decision to write a letter in defense of her ex Sean “Diddy” Combs amid his allegations of sexual abuse, which the rapper previously defended in a March interview with The Breakfast Club.
“I finally realized that not EVERYBODY wants to get free,” wrote India.Arie. “And it was a very, very, very rude awakening. smh. because the mass acceptance of this song is a crystal clear sign of this much bigger truth.”
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Read more of India.Arie’s reasoning here:
https://people.com/india-arie-explains-why-she-doesnt-like-yung-miami-spend-dat-12011346
Thanks to Dr. Vincent Johnson for alerting us to this problem.
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