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Screenshot of Doechii’s “DENIAL IS A RIVER” video
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Doechii’s visible companion for “DENIAL IS A RIVER” is lastly right here. On Thursday (Jan. 2), the Swamp Princess shared the much-awaited providing after quite a few parodies and star-studded skits.
Within the Carlos Acosta and James Mackel-directed lower, Zack Fox portrayed the observe’s notorious “previous dude from 2019.” The video exhibits Doechii pacing anxiously across the kitchen, solely to catch the comic and actor making out with web persona Rickey Thompson — completely in sync with the document’s “seems the lady was actually a dude?” plot twist.
Moments later, labelmate SiR, DJ Miss Milan, Teezo Landing and H Wooden made cameos in a home occasion scene that hilariously ended with Doechii kicking everybody out. The clip then handled viewers to some behind-the-scenes motion, with the digital camera following her on set consuming and wiping her nostril in reference to the third verse: “I imply, f**okay, I like drugs, I like medicine/ I like gettin’ cash, I like strippers, I wish to f**okay/ I like day-drinkin’ and day events in Hollywood.”
Doechii has already confirmed that she’ll be doing a “Denial Is A Stream” broadcast at 6 p.m. ET. She described the extravaganza because the “f**king coolest factor that’s ever occurred on planet Earth.” Promising video games, visitors, and surprises, the artist additionally jokingly warned followers that in the event that they didn’t watch, she’d “sneak inside your bed room and f**king kill you.”
The “Denial Is A River” music video served as a continuation of Doechii’s meteoric rise in 2024 whereas kicking off 2025 with a bang. She’s nominated for Greatest New Artist on the 67th Annual Grammy Awards, set to air on Feb. 2 inside Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Enviornment. Moreover, the Prime Dawg Leisure signee’s “NISSAN ALTIMA” is competing for Greatest Rap Efficiency, with Alligator Bites By no means Heal within the operating for Greatest Rap Album.
Regardless of being billed as a mixtape, the mission was undoubtedly one in every of final yr’s most spectacular our bodies of labor. Throughout the 19-track effort, Doechii paid homage to her southern roots with “BOILED PEANUTS,” teamed up with KUNTFETISH on “GTFO,” and cleverly interpolated Kendrick Lamar’s viral “Get Prime on the telephone” line on “BOOM BAP.”