Hip Hop Dose Staff
Yung Miami’s debut solo album, Watch Dis, arrived Friday, October 23, with two different track-list versions in circulation on release morning. The gap is more than a paperwork detail: the shorter listing does not include “Dear JT,” the song drawing the most attention for its direct address to her former City Girls partner.
The release is credited to Yung Miami LLC under exclusive license to Uptown Records, a division of UMG Recordings. Apple Music’s listing presents 12 songs running about 34 minutes. A fuller 21-song sequence, carried in release-week coverage, includes additional interludes and collaborations, and places “Dear JT” at track 19.
The two versions are a release-morning documentation fact, not proof that one is right and the other wrong. But listeners using the shorter listing will not find the song currently shaping much of the album conversation.
Two track lists on release morning
The 12-song listing opens with “Fck Shit Up (Intro),” “F You,” “2008” and “Spend Dat.” It also includes “Dade County,” featuring Rick Ross, Trina and Trick Daddy; “TMTC,” featuring Quavo and G Herbo; “Freak Like Me”; and two versions of “Spend Dat,” one with Lil Baby and Kodak Black and another featuring Davido, Shenseea and Vybz Kartel.
The fuller sequence includes those central album tracks alongside “Put Together Interlude,” “Just Might Go” with Travis Scott, “Old Time Sake” with Bryson Tiller and London On Da Track, “Letter To My Mwah Interlude,” “Baby” with Pleasure P, “Ride For You” with Summer Walker, “Chasing Sunsets” and “Dear JT.” It also separates some interludes and related tracks that appear folded together or presented differently on the shorter listing.
That distinction matters because Watch Dis is built around both a familiar rap rollout and a more personal album narrative. “Spend Dat” gave the project a recognizable entry point; “Dear JT” offers a direct account of a relationship that helped define Yung Miami’s career.
A letter to a former partner
“Dear JT” is addressed to JT, Yung Miami’s former City Girls partner. The pair’s group ended in 2024 after a public falling out that began on X in spring of that year. The new track looks back at their friendship, their shared history and the distance between them now.
The song opens with a reference to “Juanita’s house,” followed by the line, “Before the city girls, way before Caresha please.” Tiffany Evans sings the hook. Yung Miami’s verses make the subject unmistakable: “Letter to my friend 'cause I know they got a narrative / Fallin' out with my sister in public, so embarrassing / When you went in, I held it down, no comparison / Now we ain't seeing eye to eye, I wonder why / When you was dead wrong, I used to act blind / We used to get our periods at the same time.”
Later, she raps, “Sis, we could've made history / And we done grew apart, now that's no more.” The details are intimate and specific, moving beyond general regret toward the complicated memories of a close friendship.
That choice gives the song its emotional focus, and puts its personal material in public view. On release day, online listeners criticized the lyrics as cringey and the production as lackluster, while also acknowledging the song’s heartfelt sentiment. The response shows the tension built into the track: a personal attempt at addressing a former friend is also available for strangers to judge, quote and recast.
“Spend Dat” carries the rollout
Before the album, “Spend Dat” established the campaign’s commercial footing. Released April 24, 2026, it became one of the year’s biggest rap songs and reached No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Yung Miami her first solo Top 20. Two official remixes followed in August: the Lil Baby and Kodak Black version, and the international version with Davido, Shenseea and Vybz Kartel.
The single’s momentum helped introduce Watch Dis, but it does not settle what the album will do commercially. Breakout tracks do not always translate into sustained album campaigns, and no first-week projection had been issued by release morning. The presence of two remixes on the shorter listing puts the hit in clear view; the missing “Dear JT” means some listeners may encounter a different picture of the project from those hearing the fuller sequence.
Yung Miami also addressed a collaboration that did not happen. In a same-morning interview with Nessa on Hot 97, she said Drake left her on read after she reached out about appearing on the “Spend Dat” remix. “Drake left me on read. I'm like, 'Drake, what did I do?' I love Drake… Just tell me no. I'm good with the no, but leaving me on read is like, what?” she said.
She had publicly campaigned for a Drake verse dating back to the BET Awards red carpet in June. The released remixes instead feature Lil Baby and Kodak Black, and Davido, Shenseea and Vybz Kartel.
Florida roots and a solo statement
The album’s Miami focus also comes through on “Dade County,” a Slip-N-Slide homage bringing together three generations of Florida rap through Rick Ross, Trina and Trick Daddy. Elsewhere, the featured cast spans rap and R&B, with appearances from Quavo, G Herbo, Travis Scott, Bryson Tiller, Pleasure P and Summer Walker on the longer sequence.
The project follows the end of City Girls, the duo that brought Yung Miami to broad recognition. Since then, her work has also included Caresha Please, which won Best Hip Hop Platform at the BET Hip Hop Awards in 2022 and 2023. Watch Dis frames the solo album as a new chapter, but its most discussed track looks directly back at the partnership that preceded it.
The album trailer drew on clips of Joe Budden and Akademiks criticizing Yung Miami. In response, she described the effort it took to record: “I don't know how some days I built the courage to go in the studio to even record. But I remember putting all my emotions, all of that energy, everything that I felt, into this album.”
Her release-day Instagram statement made that framing explicit: “This is my story. My first solo album. My comeback. My truth. To everybody who counted me out… THANK YOU! To everybody who never stopped believing in me… this is for you. Now Watch Dis.” The campaign’s promotional visuals leaned into a 1980s Miami Vice palette, connecting the album’s presentation to the city at its center.
For now, Watch Dis arrives with two release-morning track-list shapes and a clear divide between its established single and its most personal conversation piece. “Spend Dat” remains the project’s proven hit; “Dear JT” puts Yung Miami’s former partnership at the center of the album’s public reception. Which version listeners encounter may shape how they hear that balance.
