Doechii has a few Hip Hop artists in heavy rotation at the moment, including JAY-Z, the late MF DOOM and Tyler, The Creator.
The Swamp Princess chopped it up with Ebro Darden for Apple Music in a conversation published on Tuesday (September 17). At one point, the pair got into her current playlist, and Doechii had a handful of names she’s currently rocking with.
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“Lately I’ve been into a lot of MF DOOM, rest in peace,” she began. “Westside Gunn — he’s so talented. So incredible. Tyler, The Creator, JAY-Z. I’m from the south so I didn’t grow up on a lot of JAY-Z, but I recently went through all of his discography. Oh my God! Everybody knows he’s crazy but damn! Hearing his growth?! Wow, so incredible. He’s so cool.”
Check out the full interview below. The above topic comes up around the 19-minute mark.
Elsewhere in the chat with Darden, which arrives on the heels of her new project Alligator Bites Never Heal, Doechii spoke about her love of rap music and argued that the core elements of the genre matter now more than ever.
“When people are listening to this project, they’re really witnessing me reconnect with my roots. I learned how to rap through boom bap beats, through classic beats. My first rap that I ever made was a diss track,” she began.
“With me kinda coming back to myself … I kinda re-fell in love with Hip Hop. And realized that there is a sense of tradition in Hip Hop that I really want to represent and bring back.”
The 26-year-old Florida native continued: “There is importance in tradition. I feel like it is important for us to uphold the heart of Hip Hop, which is lyrical composition, it is skill, it is wittiness, but it is also talking about our feelings, being honest about what we’re going through and connecting us as people.
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“I feel like, especially in the time of an economic recession, people need to feel things right now and we need to talk about it. And we need to do it through rap, which is why I chose the sonical direction that I chose.
“I wanna take us back to this classic space in Hip Hop and just remind people of the traditional roots of where this started — and do it in my way and push it forward.”
