Doja Cat References Viral North West Moment on 'Scarlet' Track "97"

The 27-year-old rapper pulled inspiration for the song from a moment that moved Kim Kardashian to tears.

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Doja Cat seems to have gotten inspiration for one of her new songs from a surprising source.

Fresh off her new album, Scarlet, one the project’s cuts, ā€œ97,ā€ appears to have interpolated a viral moment of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West making her rap debut.

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In the clip, North, who at the time was 6 years old, performed a remix of ZaZa’s ā€œWhat I Doā€ to close off the Yeezy Season 8 show at Paris Fashion Week in 2020. ā€œWhat are those? These are clothes / What are those? These are clothes,ā€ she sang, moving Kim to tears.

On ā€œ97,ā€ Doja riffs off the meme as she raps ā€œYeah, said these are clothes, motherfucker, what are those?ā€

Elsewhere on the track, the 27-year-old rapper addressed the controversial Threads post about her fans that led her to lose over 300,000 followers on Instagram. "Pull up and they smiley instead (actin' stupid)/Like they wasn't tryna fight me in Threads ('bout some music)ā€ she says.

Although North has yet to sing live in front of an audience again, the now 10-year-old frequently goes viral on the TikTok account she shares with her mom. Leaning further into her artistic heritage, she recently recreated a 2004 era look of her dad.

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