Key Takeaways
- Yung Miami accepted a key to the city and a proclamation granting her a day of her own at Miami’s America-N-Miami Veterans & Small Business Festival on Nov. 7.
- The former City Girls rapper thanked her hometown crowd and gave a short performance.
- The honor follows her Oct. 23 solo debut, Watch Dis!, whose lead single “Spend Dat” reached No. 17 on the Hot 100 and went platinum.
Yung Miami got the hometown treatment on Saturday (Nov. 7) as she took a Miami stage to accept a key to the city and a proclamation giving her a day of her own.
The honor came at the America-N-Miami Veterans & Small Business Festival, presented by Jazz in the Heights. Miami-Dade County Vice Chairman Kionne McGhee handed her the key in a box, while another presenter stood next to her holding the framed proclamation.
The rapper thanked her hometown crowd and gave a short performance of “Spend Dat.”
The honor lands during the biggest stretch of Yung Miami’s solo career. Real name Caresha Brownlee, she was born in Miami and raised in Opa-locka, Florida, and she first broke through with JT in City Girls. Her debut solo album, Watch Dis!, came out Oct. 23 on Uptown/Republic, led by "Spend Dat."
The single climbed to No. 17 on the Hot 100 and went platinum, even after India Arie publicly criticized the track and called for a boycott. Yung Miami defended the song as music "that builds you up to want to be somebody."
Miami has honored hometown stars this way before. Trina got keys from both the City of Miami and Miami-Dade County for the first "Trina Day," and Camila Cabello was chosen as a key-to-the-city honoree at January's Three Kings Parade.
