This week’s Run It Back takes us back to an old Yung Miami interview that hits differently now that we know everything that came after it. In the clip, she is asked directly about City Girls’ music being unapologetically Miami and raunchy, and whether she has anything to say to people who criticize the group for being too vulgar. Her answer did not waver for a second.
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“You childish. You should really grow up. You’re too sensitive,” she said. “We just making alter ego music. We just be careful, like we just saying fun stuff and stuff that girls think and wanna say… I know every girl has thought about dating a rich guy or a millionaire or a celebrity, yeah.”In the same era, she also opened up about her life before rap, long before JT ever pulled her into the booth. She revealed she had an Instagram page first called Caresha Collection, then rebranded to The Wig Gala, where she sold wigs along with bodysuits and two-piece sets out of a small online boutique. It is a detail that feels almost impossible to picture now, considering everything she has built since.
Fast forward to today, and the through line from that interview to now could not be clearer. Yung Miami is no longer one half of a duo. She stepped into her solo era in 2021 with “Rap Freaks,” and has continued building out her own lane ever since, most recently with “Spend Dat” becoming one of the biggest songs of the summer in 2026. Her personal life has changed just as dramatically. She is single now, having moved on from her much-publicized relationship with Sean Combs, and she is raising her children while running her own brand under her real name, Caresha. The podcast she launched, Caresha Please, has become a genuine hit in its own right, giving her a second lane entirely separate from music, one built on candid, unfiltered conversations with some of the biggest names in hip hop and entertainment.
What has not changed, though, is the criticism. Years after that original interview, Yung Miami is still fielding the exact same kind of pushback she addressed back then, just from a different generation of critics. When “Spend Dat” took off in 2026, singer India Arie became one of its most vocal critics, arguing that the song’s playful references to scamming and boosting reflected something concerning about what audiences were willing to accept and celebrate. Arie clarified she was not calling for a boycott, but she made clear she believed the widespread embrace of the song said something bigger about culture as a whole. Yung Miami, for her part, largely brushed the criticism off, even appearing amused when a mashup blending “Spend Dat” with one of Arie’s own songs went viral online.
That response tracks perfectly with the woman from the original clip, the one who told critics years ago to grow up and stop being so sensitive about music that was never meant to be taken as anything other than fun. She has never really changed her stance on the criticism itself. What has changed is everything happening around her, from her relationship status to her career trajectory to the sheer number of business ventures now carrying her name instead of just her stage persona.
This Run It Back moment is a reminder that longevity in this industry rarely means avoiding criticism altogether. It means learning how to keep moving anyway. The girl who was once selling wigs off an Instagram page eventually became one half of a chart topping duo, defended her right to make raunchy, fun music without apology, and is now standing on her own as a solo artist, a podcast host, and a mother, all while the criticism from a decade ago has simply been replaced by a new round of it from new voices. Through all of it, Yung Miami’s answer has stayed exactly the same, she is going to keep doing what she does, whether people approve of it or not.
