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Doechii is sick as hell.
She doesnt know whats causing these recent symptoms.
Then one thing comes to mind shes been working really hard.
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That hard work is paying off.
During every one of her performances, the mic isalwayson.
I’m in a much more confident space than I was before.
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Making the album of Doechiis dreams has been a feat.
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Can you make an album if it’s taking you like two years?
Can you even rap anymore?
Can you sing anymore?
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Doechii says she would ask herself.
But now that its done, Im like, Bitch, Im an artist!
In August 1998, Jaylah Jimya Hickmon a.k.a.
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Doechii was born in Tampa.
Growing up as a super-creative and competitive child, she always envisioned herself in the future.
Shed marvel at them and want to emulate their womanness to skip past the angst of her adolescence.
I always saw myself as this version of who I am now.
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I remember feeling really anxious all the time.
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I definitely felt seen, just not the bang out of attention I wanted.
It sounds cliche, but I felt overly analyzed.
It was always Why do you talk like that?
Why are you wearing that?
Why are you doing that?
What’s your sign?
I was trying to be who everybody wanted me to be because I just wanted to be loved.
We both cackle at the image of this bizarre, but cool mash-up.
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But back then, navigating it all became exhausting.
I was just trying to be who everybody wanted me to be because I just wanted to be loved.
But then I didn’t give a fuck, she says.
I can do whatever.
I can be myself, she says.
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I thought you had to be a superstar to record.
I didn’t know there were home studios.
She [Taylor] had one and that changed my whole life, she remembers.
I would skip school, go to her house, we would smoke, and we would record.
After that, it was over.
So she got to work, and in 2019, she dropped her first EPCoven Music Session Vol.
Rock bottom, all over again, as she puts it.
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Lyrically, Yucky Blucky Fruitcake is literal, very digestible, and a bit cheesy.
I just love who I love.
I don’t need to talk about it, I don’t need to prove it.
When I made the song, I knew it was corny.
I knew it was very cake pop.
It was supposed to be that though.
It was supposed to do that, she says.
But I didn’t think that people really wanted to hear that at the time because Yucky doesn’tsoundcool.
She doesnt think its necessary to expound on her queerness either.
So, I just love who I love.
I don’t need to talk about it, I don’t need to prove it.
I don’t need to scream it anymore because I got that out.
Doechiis evolution as an artist is palpable.
Mainly because shes talented AF and also because shes not afraid to drop new music and explore different sounds.
This idea of being mysterious with your art?
That’s not the point of art.
Doechiis rapid ascent is proof that it takes much more than being talented to make it.
In addition to her work ethic, she understands the urgency of milking the moment.
Being elusive isnt her thing.
Before you’re free to get out you gotta GET UP.
Sharing your ideas will never deplete them.
Pursuing your ideas is not childish.
Promoting your ideas doesnt make you extra.
If you dont have the balls to do what I do then dont speak on what I do.
And Doechii still stands on that.
She admits that shell be promoting What It Is (Block Boy) until shes blue in the face.
Young artists will make excuses and disguise it as, Oh, they don’t deserve this.
This is just too good.
I’m not gonna put it out.
Shut up, you’re scared.
It’s okay to be scared, but this idea of being mysterious with your art?
That’s not the point of art.
I truly believe that ideas are meant to be recycled.
I don’t think anything is new under the sun.
you might’t be mysterious!
You ain’t got nothing out!
With 130 Instagram followers?!
she bursts out into laughter and puts a hand over her mouth.
I used to want to make music to express myself.
Then I just wanted to put music out.
Now I’m in a position where I want to win.
But Doechiis not being preachy, shes just being real.
She used to be scared too.
Now shes encouraging young artists and herself to trust that great ideas are abundant.
Its all about fun, energy, andreallygood music.
Weve got Afrobeat, hip-hop rock, pop, rap, alt-rap, she reveals.
The whole album could be on the radio, but each song is unique.
I ask Doechii what this era of her career is about.
Hits, hits, hits!
she says, at least three more times while clapping her hands.
I used to want to make music to express myself.
Then I had a stage where I just wanted to put music out.
Now I’m in a position where I want to win, she says.
Ill probably move on.
Maybe I’ll direct, start doing sports, have a farm.
Maybe I’ll go back to school.
I never went to college.
Live in the dorm.
Trading the spotlight for a quiet life that has nothing to do with music has its own charm.
But I tell Doechii it’ll be a while until she can leave it all behind.
Things are popping off, and she’s just getting started.
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