Doechii: Rap therapy with the woman of the hour

Whether you are interested in the Grammys who are pursuing fashion Week in Paris, hears hip -hop or even scroll through Instagram – there is no way to get past the American rapper Doechii (26).

As the American born in Florida in 1998, thanks to the Internet, the Internet has found her way. Doechii started on YouTube with its own vlogs in 2014 and built up a small follow -up for the years. , in which she reports that she was terminated and now wants to rely entirely on her artistic ambitions. “I literally have nothing to lose. I have no apartment, I have no job, I have no children – who cares?”, She said chips eating and slightly pissed off in the camera.

She was also inspired by Julia Cameron’s famous creative guide “The way of the artist”. On YouTube, she documented her path from the ambitious amateur to the successful artist with the help of the book for months. Including all self-doubt, setbacks and also “cringe” moments that this process brings with it. The fact that these videos are still online is one of the musicians’ success ingredients: authenticity.

In the same year in which she was canceled, she released her first EP “Oh the Places You’ll Go”. A short time later, the “Yucky Blucky Blucky Fruitcake” track included went viral. Soon she was contracted by Top Dawg Entertainment, the label, which also made Kendrick Lamar (37) tall. A year later she was on stage at the Coachella Festival.

Five years after her termination, Doechii now collects the laurels of her creative journey with spread arms: in which she was accompanied by a band from nine women, was referred to as “Triumphal” (“Rolling Stone”) and went viral again. For her mixtape “Alligator Bites Never Heal”, she recently won the Grammy for the best rap album as the third woman. This week she chose the industry magazine. And her former label colleague Kendrick Lamar writes on Instagram that Doechii is currently “the most blatant out there”.

The “Rolling Stone” told Doechii that she was most creative when nobody listens and nobody is interested in her. Ironically, she is now on everyone’s lips with a song that is seen by this fear. The Track “Anxiety” recorded in 2019, in which they Gotyes “Somebody That I Used To Know” Samplet currently undertakes all videos on Tiktok and Instagram.

Doechii’s music sounds like a wild mix of high-energy rap, experimental R&B a la Missy Elliott (53) and a Spoken word artist who is mad at her therapist. The latter particularly well listed in the in which Doechii, in a dialect interview with her therapist-age ego, turns out about her depression, drug problems and career. The energetic track ultimately flows into breathing exercises, inspired by a beatbox technique.

The song, inspired by a diary entry, demanded a lot. She told that she was afraid at first because he was so “raw and honest”: “It was a song I thought: that’s too much, I don’t pack it.” But she knew she had to publish him. Your music does not follow a hit formula, said Doechii – she was therapy: “I’m here to feel something.”