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Doechii has hit back at critics who say she looks like a man by completely transforming into one for her latest cover shoot.
Paper Mag shared their new cover on Wednesday (September 4), which features the TDE rapper in not only a mustache but prosthetic abs and a bulge to match. She named the alter ego “Ricardo” and revealed he’s bisexual and hails from Panama.
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“Last year, I started seeing comments from people who would say, ‘She looks like a man.’ Or, ‘She has on too much makeup. She looks like a drag queen,'” she explained. “All these comments never bother me, because I just find it interesting. But I was like, ‘Since they keep saying I look like a man, I’m gonna fucking give them a man. An eight-pack, mustache man.’ That’s what inspired me to do the look and I think it turned out sick.”
She also joked that she found herself quite attractive as a man, adding: “Literally, when I put on the prosthetics, I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’m attracted to myself right now. I wish I could fuck me.’”
Doechii released her new mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal on Friday (August 30) and has quite the fan in her TDE boss Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith – as he noted the project makes him feel the same way the label’s breakout superstar Kendrick Lamar did in his early days.
“@doechii Alligator Bites Never Heal out now !! What are your thoughts & standouts so far ? I have the same feeling I had when KDOT dropped Section 80,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “She’s 1 of those ones 4sho !!!! #TDE20 #TimelessClassicMusic”
Top Dawg isn’t the only TDE member that Doechii has impressed with her new effort, as it’s all ScHoolboy Q has been spinning as well.
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“Just Here to say DOEcHii… dats all I care about at da moment,” he wrote on X the day the tape dropped.
The 19-track Alligator Bites Never Heal follows Doechii’s weekly “Swamp Session” installments and her single “Alter Ego” with JT earlier this year.
