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Who has Doja Cat dated?
The rapper has never publicly revealed her relationship status, so it's unclear who inspired hits like Kiss Me More and Say So
BORN and raised in Los Angeles, Doja Cat started out her career releasing music on SoundCloud when she was just a teenager.
Over the past few years, the viral rapper, singer, and songwriter has become a household name and has been linked to several Hollywood studs.
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Who has Doja Cat dated?
While Doja Cat has been linked to a lot of people, she has only been in a few official relationships.
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Jeffrey "J" Cyrus
Doja most recently has been linked to Jeffrey "J" Cyrus.
The duo were first spotted together in New York City in November 2022 and again grabbing dinner at Carbone in May 2023.
In June 2023, she and the Louisiana native were photographed kissing in Los Cabos, Mexico.
The comedian and social media personality got his start on the now defunct-social media app, Vine.
However, according to the , some eagle-eyed fans spotted the comic on the celebrity dating app, Raya, as recently as February 2024.
Back in September 2023, Doja revealed that she was a "serial dater" to Harper's Bazaar.
“I love love. I’m possibly a serial dater. I definitely have had that in me a little bit,” she said.
“But right now I’m in a different place in my life, where I am very committed and very much in love in a different way than before."
"I think I’ve evolved. I’m learning to love myself, so the way that I love other people is very different."
"I don’t feel like a lost little teen. I feel like a woman who is coming into her own.”
Doja Cat calls 17yo Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp a ‘snake’ and a ‘weasel’ for exposing private DMs she sent trying to hook up with his co-star Joseph Quinn
As of April 17, 2024, J. Cyrus on Instagram, though the singer .
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Johnny Utah
Johnny Utah - also known as JAWNY and Jacob Sullenger - is one of Doja Cat's first public relationships and is known as an indie artist.
The former couple revealed during an Instagram Live session that they first met in 2019.
"I found his music video for ‘Honeypie,’ and I didn’t like the song,” she said according to .
“She hated it. She hates the song. She didn’t like the song at all,” Johnny added.
“But I liked the way you moved,” Doja commented.
“I don’t know. It was your pants. I was like, ‘oh, I like your pants. I went to his YouTube video and [then] commented on his Instagram, and I was like, ‘I love you, baby.'”
While the two seemed to click, their romance was short-lived and they reportedly broke up in February 2020.
"Everything’s fine. I’m okay, I unfollowed my ex-boyfriend on Twitter, and everything is okay," Doja Cat wrote following the breakup.
"And we’ve been cool. There’s nothing weird going on. There’s no type of f**king drama or any weird sh*t going on."
"Sh*t just didn’t work out. … It just wasn’t working at the moment that it is right now, and we just f**king moved on.”
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French Montana
Doja Cat was rumored to be linking up with French Montana since they were seen together on a yacht in October 2020, but Doja denied that they were together romantically in a .
She wrote: "Me and French got a song coming out. F****n relax.”
French shared a of the two joking around at the top of a water slide while celebrating his lawyer Adam Zia's birthday, which had followers speculating.
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Bree Runway
British rapper Brenda Wireko Mensah, known professionally as Bree Runway, go the public's attention back on July 20, 2021.
Runway posted a few snaps of Doja Cat to her X, formerly Twitter, account, "my hot date" and tagging the Say So star.
In a now-deleted tweet, Doja responded to Runway's tweet by tweeting pics of the rapper alongside the caption: "“I have a girlfriend and I’m going public @breerunway.”
Still, the duo never confirmed whether they were together, or just playing around as friends do.
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Joji
In 2022, fans also began to speculate that Doja was linked with Japanese singer and YouTuber George Kusunoki Miller, known professionally as Joji.
She tweeted about the star several times, and even mentioned liking him during an Instagram Live.
However, Doja herself shut down the rumors during a follow-up Instagram Live.
“No, I’m not dating Joji,” she said.
“Not that he’s not cute," she added.
Who is Doja Cat?
Born October 21, 1995, Doja Cat's real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini.
She is known as an American rapper, singer, and songwriter and even managed to snag a hosting gig at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.
Doja's third studio album, Planet Her, was released on June 27, 2021, and has multiple collaborations. Those featured on her album include SZA, Ariana Grande, Young Thug, and more.
When she is not producing her own music, she is inspiring others like Lil Nas X, who revealed that she and Miley Cyrus are two of the biggest influences he's had during the start of his career.
"[Doja] is one of my biggest inspirations right now," Lil Nas X said speaking to Apple Music's Zan Lowe.
"It first starts with just watching the VMAs last year, seeing her out there looking like a [expletive] star.
"...You can tell she puts a lot of effort into everything she does, but she's not going around like, 'I am the best. I am the queen of everything, 'And rightfully so, she could say that."
Doja Cat was notably featured on Lil Nas X's 2021 debut studio album, Montero, on the song Scoop.
Over the years, Doja has released four studio albums and has collaborated with multiple artists including Nicki Minaj, The Weeknd, and more.
Following the 2021 VMA's, Doja sat down with to talk about her future partnerships, and why she's being careful.
“I’ve been trying to be more careful about who I’m collaborating with,” Doja told the media outlet.
“Not to say that the people on my album aren’t, like, they’re incredible. Like, they are. They’re the perfect features on my album.
"But I do wanna be more choosy about what I’m doing because I feel like a lot of features are coming out and it feels like people are just getting on each other’s songs for the sake of having them on each other’s songs.”
Doja later went on to say she's going to be “really careful” not to contribute to that narrative.
“I want to be really careful about that,” she continued.
“You know, sometimes it’s too much collabs and remixes and things like that.”
Her fourth album, Scarlet, was released on September 22, 2023, and featured a darker, more experimental aesthetic, featuring hits like Attention, Demons, and Paint the Town Red.
A deluxe version of her album, Scarlet 2 Claude, was released on April 5, 2024, featuring collaborations from ASAP Rocky and Teezo Touchdown.
Doja's first arena tour, The Scarlet Tour, kicked off on October 31, 2023, ending its North American leg on December 13, 2023.
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She toured alongside supporting acts Ice Spice and Doechii.
Since launching her career, Doja has received a Grammy Award, five Billboard Music Awards, five American Music Awards, and five MTV Video Music Awards.
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