Before the private jets, designer shopping trips and hit records, there were two young women in Miami trying to make ends meet. That is where Yung Miami starts “Dear JT,” the 19th track on her debut solo album, Watch Dis!, released Friday. The song is a letter to Jatavia Johnson, the friend and partner who built City Girls with her, and it is a long way from the confident, confrontational persona that made the duo famous. Caresha Brownlee is not celebrating a win or answering critics here. She is remembering someone she has not talked to in two years.
The track appeared as “Dear —” on the album’s early tracklist, HotNewHipHop reported, which set off fan guessing before the full title, “Dear JT,” surfaced. Across two verses, Miami walks through their shared beginnings, the years interrupted by incarceration, the money that eventually came and the disagreements that pulled them apart, with a singer carrying a refrain about missing someone. It plays less like a pitch for a City Girls reunion than an attempt to understand how a bond that seemed unbreakable went quiet.
Miami explained why she put it out now during an interview with Nessa on Hot 97. She said the song reflects how she feels in 2026 and that she was not going to act like JT is not her sister. She does not know how she will feel next year or in 2028, she said, so she wanted to release it while it was true, and she described herself as the bigger person for doing it.
A Friendship Older Than the Fame
The first verse goes back before celebrity, to matching outfits, tight money and neighborhoods where danger was part of the routine. Miami brings up her mother’s incarceration and JT’s prison sentence, reminders that the friendship existed long before the group did. City Girls was built on a relationship already shaped by hardship and by the kind of understanding that comes from knowing someone before the world knows her name. Success changed their circumstances, but Miami’s memories suggest it did not protect what they had.
As the song moves from struggle to expensive dinners and international trips, the celebration turns into an admission that she feels she is losing someone. Two women who escaped the limits of their early lives ended up separated by something money and visibility could not fix. The achievements they chased together became part of a life they no longer share.
Love and Grievance in the Same Breath
The second verse is where it gets complicated. Miami calls their public falling-out embarrassing, pushes back on the stories that grew up around it and reminds JT that she kept the group moving while JT was incarcerated. She also suggests she sometimes looked past behavior she thought was wrong to keep the peace. Those are grievances delivered alongside love, and they show how Miami sees her own role, which is not necessarily the full story of what happened between them in private.
Anyone who has lost a close friend will recognize the contradiction. The same person can sit at the center of your best memories and your worst disappointments, and you can believe you were loyal, feel unappreciated and still miss her. The song’s most exposed moment is a short question, “JT, do you love me?” After the online arguments and the silence, it sounds like someone looking for proof that the affection was real.
Two Years of Distance
The public record explains the doubt. In April 2024, Miami accused JT of “sneak-dissing” her on the solo songs “Sideways” and “No Bars,” and the two traded shots on social media, Revolt reported. They appeared together that December for JT’s birthday, but the partnership behind hits like “Act Up” never resumed. In an interview this month, Miami said the last time they spoke was “her birthday, like, two years ago,” and when asked about a reunion, she answered, “I mean, inshallah,” or God willing, according to Complex.
The saddest part of the song may be Miami imagining what they could have built if they had stayed together. City Girls already mattered. They came out of Miami’s rap scene and helped shape the sound and attitude of late-2010s hip-hop at a moment when women rappers were gaining real commercial ground, proof that two friends from the same streets could create opportunities together in an industry that often pits women against each other.
Her Version, Not the Whole Story
“Dear JT” is Miami’s account, not JT’s. It is what she remembers and what she wishes had gone differently, and JT has not responded. Two people can leave the same friendship with different ideas about what went wrong, and that is harder when the private breakdown becomes public entertainment. Fans have spent years arguing over who carried City Girls and who ended it, turning a lifelong friendship into a contest neither woman signed up for.
The song also fits a broader conversation about friendship breakups, especially the ones that start in adolescence. Unlike romantic splits, they rarely come with a clear ending, just calls that stop and birthdays that pass, a pattern SSC has explored in Some Friendships Only Come Once. For two women whose friendship was also their business, it is even messier, because their names, music and legacy stay linked whether or not they ever talk again.
Watch Dis! is meant to establish Miami on her own, with Travis Scott, Summer Walker, Quavo and Rick Ross among the guests, and it follows an album rollout SSC has followed closely. Yet “Dear JT” may be its most revealing moment because it does not pretend she is unaffected by the past. It is not a tidy apology, and it does not mean a reunion is coming. On an album built to prove she can stand alone, Yung Miami admits that moving forward still means missing the person who once stood beside her.