#SpendDat is the hashtag for “Spend Dat,” a solo single by American rapper Yung Miami (Caresha Brownlee) released April 24, 2026 through Uptown Records, and for the TikTok-driven summer moment that followed. The record became her highest-charting solo Hot 100 hit and turned into one of the most-argued “song of the summer 2026” candidates after the crowd at the 2026 BET Awards sang it back to her as she took the stage.
Quick Facts
- Artist: Yung Miami (Caresha Brownlee), formerly of City Girls
- Released: April 24, 2026
- Label: Uptown Records
- Writers: Yung Miami with Akil King, Maurice Simmonds, and Ronny Wright
- Video director: Supo Supreme (released same day)
- Video cameos: NeNe Leakes, Trina, Trick Daddy, Ball Greezy
- Chart peak: Highest-charting solo Hot 100 entry of Yung Miami’s career (per Billboard/Wikipedia)
The Song
“Spend Dat” is a Miami-bass and strip-club record — a subgenre and setting Yung Miami has drawn on since her City Girls run. Wikipedia describes the instrumental as “soulful guitar licks, soft piano chords, and a simple, bouncy percussion pattern,” a template designed for looping over dance clips. The lyrical frame is luxury independence: Yung Miami raps about earning her own money and choosing how to spend it, with a confrontational persona aimed at partners and outside observers alike.
How It Spread
The song broke first on TikTok, where the hook and bounce-track pattern fit the platform’s dance-and-club-vlog format. By the time it hit the 2026 BET Awards on June 28, it had crossed into general knowledge: as Yung Miami walked onstage, the audience began singing the lyrics unprompted, and BET captioned its own post from the moment “Spend dat is the summer anthem #BETAwards.” That clip circulated the next morning across HotNewHipHop, AOL, Vibe, and Yahoo Entertainment, and #SpendDat spiked accordingly.
Cultural Impact
Coming after a stretch in which Yung Miami’s public presence was more shaped by tabloid coverage than by music releases, “Spend Dat” reasserted her as a chart artist on her own — not as one-half of City Girls, not as a podcast host. Vibe explicitly framed the song as her strongest solo argument to date and one of the leading candidates for a wide-open 2026 song-of-summer race that also includes Olivia Rodrigo’s “drop dead” and Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me.”
The record’s shape — short, loop-ready, danceable, easily lip-synced — also made it a fixture in the summer’s TikTok dance ecosystem alongside other 2026 breakouts like Ian McConnell’s “you never take me to Bangladesh”. Where “Bangladesh” spread on absurdism, “Spend Dat” spread on the more familiar strip-club-music vector — proof that both templates could coexist as summer anthems.
Variations & Related Tags
- #Bangladesh — the other 2026 song-of-summer front-runner, from a different corner of TikTok’s audio ecosystem
- #HotDogSummer — the July 2026 vibe-hashtag “Spend Dat” clips often stack alongside