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Miami rapper JT celebrated her 32nd birthday on Dec. 3, welcoming a slew of friends, fam, and celebrity acquaintances to a high-fashion birthday bash Wednesday (Dec. 4) at Rick Owens’ Design District storefront in her hometown.
The party and celebratory dinner, which essentially became an Art Basel opening event, found the “JT Coming” artist arriving in a 2018 archive Rick Owens dress, paired with arm-length chrome and silver bracelets, which i-D reports were sourced from an Owens collector in the Netherlands. As a huge fan of the designer, JT took it upon herself to request the venue, telling i-D, “I was reaching for the stars,” when she first proposed the idea. “I eventually let the idea go, but a month ago the team let me know I can do it.”
Guests enjoyed passed hors d’oeuvres including caviar and creamed chickpeas & crudo tartlets while sipping on Rick Drop cocktails — a custom take on the Lemon Drop — ahead of an entree of poached Chilean sea bass. Berlin rave DJ Yasmina Dexter was on hand to keep the party vibes going as guests including Kevin “Coach K” Lee, Pierre “P” Thomas, Keyshia Ka’oir, JT’s beau Lil Uzi Vert and her City Girls groupmate Yung Miami all wished the birthday beauty well on her big day.
“Nobody better than my baby! Thank you for everything [heart emoji]” the “Okay” rapper captioned a snap of herself with her man.
Yung Miami’s presence also gave fans of the group the reunion they’ve been waiting for. Check out snaps from the shindig and a clip of the ladies dancing and sharing a laugh within the carousel below.
Back in June, Yung Miami explained that a lack of chemistry lead to the lackluster performance of their last studio album, RAW, and the duo ultimately going their separate ways to focus on solo endeavors.
“The whole rollout for the album was bad because we was just in two different spaces,” she told Complex at the time. “You know, like, we older now and [JT] was doing her own thing. She on the West Coast, I’m in Miami. I’m doing my own thing. And I felt like naturally, when she doing her own thing, it just worked for her. And when I’m doing my own thing, it worked for me. But when we get together as a group, it just wasn’t connecting. It just wasn’t working no more. So I think we both was at a point where we were just like, ‘We probably should just do our own s**t.’”
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