Doechii admitted she by no means thought Alligator Bites By no means Heal would explode, however the mixtape landed her a Grammy and a Billboard Prime 10 spot.
Doechii scored a Grammy and a Prime 10 Billboard debut with Alligator Bites By no means Heal, however revealed she by no means thought the mixtape would take off the best way it did.
The Tampa-born rapper advised Individuals that her 2024 venture was extra of a private outlet than a calculated profession transfer.
“No, by no means. I wasn’t even in that thoughts body,” she mentioned when requested if she anticipated the discharge to be her breakout second. “I simply wished to get my story out and say what it’s that I wished to say. It was actually an experiment.”
Launched in August, the mixtape grew to become her most vital success thus far.
It climbed into the Prime 10 of the Billboard 200 and later earned her a Grammy Award for Finest Rap Album in February — a historic win that made her solely the third lady to ever take dwelling the trophy in that class.
The “Nervousness” rapper defined that she had set a private deadline for the venture’s launch.
“I had a deadline in my head, and I used to be like, ‘I simply really feel like I’ve to drop it presently, and if I don’t, I’m going to overlook the mark on one thing inside myself,’” she mentioned. “And so I didn’t anticipate for it to be practically as massive as a result of proper after that I used to be identical to, ‘I’m simply going to place this mixtape out, after which I’m simply going to go forward and drop my debut album, and that might be the one.’”
As an alternative, the mixtape’s sudden momentum shifted her timeline.
“However it ended up turning into manner greater than I anticipated and pushing issues again a bit of bit,” she added.
Regardless of the acclaim, Doechii nonetheless hasn’t launched her first full-length studio album.
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