City Girls Docuseries

7.6.20

JT, Yung Miami

On June 20th, the City Girls dropped their second studio album, City On Lock. Following up on this effort, the Miami rap duo announced a five part docuseries capturing their individual lives and rise to fame. Back in 2018, Quality Control released a quick, twenty-three minute video that shed some insight on who the ladies are. Unfortunately, it ends with dropping JT off to serve her two-year prison sentence. This new docuseries picks up just where they left off, and should share plenty of the girls back together.

If you’d like to get to know the girls, you have to preface this docuseries with the documentary released in 2018. JT and Yung Miami were great friends for a while. JT was looking for someone to rap with her, and the two always had a great time exchanging bars. One day, JT wanted to write a diss track about the girls in the neighborhood. The track blew up, and eleven months later, the duo became the first ladies signed to Quality Control.

These girls just seem like young girls trying to have a good time. They are both very family oriented, but have troubled paths. Yung Miami shares her mother has been in jail for some time. Unfortunately, JT was next to go. She spent almost two years in prison serving a sentence for fraud. JT explains on this video that she always had a job, but it the money was not enough to get by. She hates that she did this, but knew she would do her time and come back stronger.

Now the new docuseries will be interesting after the success and hype around the girls. Act Up was an anthem chanted around the country, Yung Miami hops on Drake’s In My Feelings Remix, and everyone is really awaiting on JT to come home, and see what the girls do next. This was not covered in the first episode, however she did come home in October. I am hoping that between then and quarantine, there is enough footage to put together some cool insights on what has been going on in their lives lately. Where JT and Yung Miami were literally recording in the studio up until the hour before she had to report to prison, I am sure they’ve been grinding the same way since.

So, what did they cover in the first episode? Yung Miami’s secret. Yung Miami already had a lot of pressure on her, as she had to carry a two-women group on her shoulders for two years while JT was gone. Their songs had just recently taken off, and now one of them is leaving? How are you going to do shows? Come out with new music? Keep your audience engaged? Miami did just that, continuing to do shows solo, take on interviews and write new music where she could.

Times got even more stressful, where she had to tell her Quality Control Management Team that she was five months pregnant. Miami already had one son, and was halfway ready to have another when she finally bossed up and told her manager. At first, it seemed that the team was a bit apprehensive. To be fair, they were planning shows, concerts, events, interviews, everyday for the past five months. Who knows what would have to get rescheduled if they were too close to the pregnancy date. However, they talked it through, and everyone was super supportive for Miami.

Lil Baby, another artist of the Quality Control label says he would speak to Yung Miami and give her advice. At one point, she wanted to quit and give up, but he gave her the keep going pep talk. Miami talked about how supportive all the guys at QC are, which is really great. They are like family, which Miami definitely could use during these times. Recently, the first father of her child passed away. I am not sure if this will make it into the docuseries or not, but Miami has been through a lot, and she deserves happiness and success.

The new album is pretty dope. Features from Doja Cat, Lil Durk and Lil Baby, the girls are here to secure their spot in the rap game. I am looking forward to catching the remainder of the docuseries on YouTube.