Doechii is ending the year in style, wowing audiences with her latest viral performance and promising an official debut studio album in 2025.
Earlier this year, Swamp Princess teamed up with Top Dawg Entertainment to release her critically acclaimed debut mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal.
The tape earned Doechii three Grammy nominations, including Best Rap Album, the first time a female artist had been nominated for a mixtape. She is also up for Best New Artist and Best Rap Performance.
In a new interview with Variety , Doechii reflected on the mixtape, explaining that she freed herself from the heavy expectations that marked the project as a “debut album.”
“I was able to birth this out of sheer presence and creativity,” she said. “I think I hope to carry that with me in all my projects and keep going with that mentality.”
Now, Doechii is prioritizing her debut album over its planned 2025 release.
“All I could think about was this album,” she told the outlet. “So I’m just looking forward to making more hits, making more music and achieving more goals. That’s it.
Doechii makes debut on NPR’s “Tiny Desk”
Meanwhile, Doechii gave a memorable performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk on Friday (December 6), rocking matching braids and beads with a group of black women.
While most of the songs came from Alligator Bites Never Heal, Doechii also performed a song from her previous project Oh, The Places You’ll Go, a cut of “Black Girl Memoir.”
“I decided to play this record because I think the current situation in our country is causing a lot of emotions for a lot of people,” she explained. “I wrote this song specifically for black women,” Deutch added. Women of skin, I have a very unique experience that I’m trying to internalize…so I dedicate this to all the beautiful black women in the room.
Black girls also took center stage earlier this week with their performances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert . She choreographed and performed a striking medley of “DENIAL IS A RIVER” and “BOILED PEANUTS.”
The Tampa, Florida, and two of her dancers wore the same outfit. The trio also intricately woven braids into each other’s hair.
She posted on Instagram that the performance was “my vision for the future of hip-hop” and the epitome of “luxury” and “black.”
“I’m very inspired by the lineage of hip-hop and how it’s impacted who I am today. This is the first show I’ve choreographed myself, and one of the most important things I want to emphasize is my connection to black people through hip-hop. The female connection,” she wrote. “This is history.”
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