{"id":429229,"date":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429229\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:20:23","slug":"yung-miami-on-lisarayes-spend-that-criticism-what-are-we-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/429229\/","title":{"rendered":"Yung Miami on LisaRaye&#8217;s &#8220;Spend That&#8221; Criticism: &#8216;What Are We Talking About?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\"><a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/yung-miami\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yung Miami<\/a> has responded to <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/cmplxtara-mahadevan\/lisaraye-nicki-minaj-barbz-i-dont-give-a-damn\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LisaRaye McCoy<\/a>\u2019s criticism of her summer hit <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/markelibert\/yung-miami-backlash-kids-spend-dat-stage\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cSpend Dat.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">In June, the actress participated in the song\u2019s viral dance challenge before slamming \u201cSpend Dat\u201d on an August episode of podcast Mama, I Made It! \u201cI know about that, but to glorify it\u2013no. After I did it, I had to say to [the] public, I was like, \u2018Oh no, I didn&#8217;t really know what that is,\u2019\u201d McCoy said around the 20-minute mark of the video below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Yung Miami responded months later on the Wednesday (Oct. 14) episode of The Morning Hustle, calling out McCoy for hypocrisy. The music video for \u201cSpend Dat\u201d was also a strip club-themed homage to 1998 drama The Players Club, which McCoy starred in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">\u201cI just wanted to spice up the video, but it&#8217;s like, to say that about a song\u2026Girl, you was Diamond in The Players Club. What are we talking about?\u201d Miami said around the 18-minute mark below. \u201cWhy would you play that role?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"w-full font-normal font-inter text-[16px] leading-[1.75] text-black break-words antialiased\">Yung Miami jokingly added that McCoy \u201cdid good\u201d in her role of Players Club protagonist Diamond. \u201cSpend Dat\u201d also caught flak from neo-soul musician <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/india-arie\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India.Arie<\/a>, who twice called for listeners to <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/backwoodsaltar\/india-arie-yung-miami-spend-dat-clive-davis\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">interpret the song\u2019s meaning<\/a> and called it \u201cdegrading.\u201d The Florida rapper responded by <a class=\"font-normal text-[#007daf] transition-none hover:underline hover:text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/backwoodsaltar\/yung-miami-responds-spend-dat-mashup\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">co-signing a mash-up<\/a> of \u201cSpend Dat\u201d over India.Arie\u2019s 2001 \u201cVideo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yung Miami has responded to LisaRaye McCoy\u2019s criticism of her summer hit \u201cSpend Dat.\u201d In June, the actress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-429229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}