Doechii’s new hip-hop/rap mixtape, Alligator Bites Never Heal, captures a rare talent in her rawest form yet, giving listeners 19 distinct windows into her one-of-a-kind artistry. The new mixtape is out now via Top Dawg Entertainment/Capitol Records.
Doechii says, “To my Swamp, my devoted core fans, I hope you cherish this mixtape and create beautiful memories to it. Use my music to encourage you through the rough days and use it to imagine better ones. Allow Alligator Bites Never Heal to inspire you as you all have inspired me. I love you forever.”
The explosive “GTFO” Ft. KUNTFETISH features razor-sharp wordplay from the two artists as they call out their haters. “GTFO” was produced by in-house TDE producer Devin Malik (Lil Yachty, Ken Carson), who produced several other tracks on the mixtape.
Upon its release last week, “Boom Bap,” was hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the “Songs You Need to Know This Week” and led ESSENCE’s roundup of the “Best New Music.” Billboard marveled at “Doechii’s A+ flow as she proves herself over and over as the one to watch in the hip-hop genre.”
Elsewhere, she delivers blunt-force bars on “Bullfrog,” unleashes a horrorcore growl on “Catfish,” and drops countless quotables on “Nissan Altima” (“I’m the new hip-hop Madonna/ I’m the trap Grace Jones”).
On Alligator Bites Never Heal, Doechii is equal parts her Tampa roots and Los Angeles, where she’s currently based, she is then and now and also tomorrow, she is countless genres and movements and eras and ideas laid out before us in less than an hour of song. She is the woman on the cover, looking like a stone-faced queen, wearing Vivienne Westwood with beads in her braids and an albino alligator in her lap as if to say, “Did you expect something less?”
The mixtape comes on the heels of Doechii’s Eurodance-inspired hit “Alter Ego,” dubbed by R&B superstar SZA as “the craziest song I’ve heard all year.” “Alter Ego” received the remix treatment, with JT delivering a verse, further extending Doechii’s winning streak. To date, the song has earned over 15 million streams on Spotify alone. Earlier this summer, Doechii released “MPH,” where she thrives over a frenetic dance beat. She also partnered with Sprite’s Limelight music film to release her melodic single “ROCKET,” a song Hypebeast labeled “perfect for the summer.”
After gaining 600 million plus global streams for “What It Is (Block Boy)” last year, she unleashed “Booty Drop,” a New Jersey Club-influenced single, and “Pacer,” a track Stereogum described as “a shouty maximalist anthem” laced with “electronic streaks and overdriven rock guitars.” In September, she continued to build her momentum when she popped out to Los Angeles to open for Beyoncé. That same fall, the self-proclaimed Swamp Princess hit the road with Doja Cat on her Scarlet Tour dates.
This all builds on the heels of Doechii’s 2022 EP ‘she/ her/black b**ch,’ where she cemented herself as a distinct voice whose versatile talents range from quick-fire bars to seductive singing. Doechii was chosen as an XXL Freshman and tapped as an “Artist to Watch” in Rolling Stone, NPR, Vulture, Complex, Uproxx, Pigeons and Planes, FADER, and more.
Buy or stream Alligator Bites Never Heal.
