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Doechii is on high of the world proper now. On Sunday (Feb. 2), the Swamp Princess secured her first-ever Grammy Award, adopted by her celebrating one of the best ways she is aware of how: dropping new music.
At midnight on Monday (Feb. 3), Doechii dropped “Nosebleeds” to have fun her Finest Rap Album win. Clocking in at simply over two minutes, the observe noticed her shouting out her High Dawg Leisure household and the Recording Academy.
“I do not know, is she gonna go loopy? Is she gonna go loopy? / Everyone wished to know what Doechii would do if she did not win / I suppose we’ll by no means–,” she spat in reference to Ye’s iconic Grammy Award acceptance speech for The School Dropout, which received the identical award in 2005.
Elsewhere, the Florida phenomenon confirmed like to SZA, Isaiah Rashad and TDE’s president, Anthony “Moosa” Tiffith Jr. Give the document a hear under.
Doechii, who additionally hit the stage that evening, was up for 3 awards: Finest New Artist, Finest Rap Efficiency and Finest Rap Album. Whereas she misplaced the primary two to Chappell Roan and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” — virtually inevitable contemplating he received 5 awards on Sunday — her Alligator Bites By no means Heal rightfully took residence the win for Finest Rap Album.
“I put my coronary heart and my soul into this mixtape. I’ve bared my life. I went via a lot. I devoted myself to sobriety, and God advised me that I might be rewarded and that he would present me simply how good it could possibly get,” Doechii stated throughout her acceptance speech.
She then took a second to uplift different Black ladies: “I do know that there’s some Black woman on the market, so many Black ladies on the market which are watching me proper now, and I wish to inform you: You are able to do it. Something is feasible. Something is feasible.”
Although billed as a mixtape, Alligator Bites By no means Heal delivered standouts like “BOILED PEANUTS,” “DENIAL IS A RIVER” and the KUNTFETISH-backed “GTFO,” amongst others. It additionally served as an thrilling predecessor to Doechii’s studio debut album, which is anticipated to reach in 2025.