The L’Officiel Art cover message says it all: ‘DOJA CAT Has Arrived’. Indeed! See our review of the cover story.

Doja Cat stepped into that rare limelight of the new TIME 100 The World’s Most Influential People List.

Australian film director, producer, writer and actor Baz Luhrmann makes unusually flattering comments about Doja Cat’s talents and approach to project execution.

When she started to work on ‘Vegas’ for ‘Elvis’, Elvis was relegated to a Halloween costume—he wasn’t influential to the younger generation. But Doja and her producer Yeti Beats understood the importance of translating “Hound Dog” for a new audience. For them, it was an act of translating the roots of Black music.

Doja’s mother Deborah Sawyer is an American graphic designer of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Her father, Dumisani Dlamini, is a South African performer of Zulu descent, from Durban, South Africa.

Doja watches him on Instagram but has no relationship with him. In fact, she’s never met him. In a note of irony, he has reached out to her on Instragram recently, in relationship to her Schiaparelli sequined event. We break down the sequin story, which made headlines globally, even though Doja Cat was brutally ill most of the day.

The rapper is one of the 50 most streamed artists on Spotify and agrees that it’s impossible to separate her from the internet. “Social media has been a really big part of what I do,” she said. “I’m just learning to control how much I put out, and the way that I put those things out.”