Doechii Says Debut LP Will Be Out Next Year: ‘All I Can Think About Is This Album’

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Doechii is riding high right now, with Grammy nominations, an acclaimed TV performance, and a new Tiny Desk Concert — and she plans on keeping the momentum going in 2025 by releasing her debut album.

The TDE artist, who has been clear that her breakthrough project Alligator Bites Never Healis a mixtape and not an album, spoke to Varietyfor a story published on Friday (December 6).

Doechii told Variety that a proper debut LP will be released in 2025, and that it will have plenty of live instrumentation.

“All I can think about is this album, so I’m just looking forward to making more hits, making more music and achieving more of my goals,” she said. “That’s it.”

Just days before that piece was published, she gave fans a taste of what she’s calling “the future of Hip Hop” with a spellbinding performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The TDE star delivered a stunning medley of tracks from her acclaimed Alligator Bites Never Heal mixtape on Wednesday (December 4) while accompanied by two dancers in matching Gucci skirts.

The performance also featured an homage to MF DOOM, with Doechii opening and closing the showcase with quotes from the late rap legend’s Red Bull Music Academy lecture in 2011.

The self-proclaimed Swamp Princess revealed on social media that she choreographed the performance herself and described it as a tribute to both Hip Hop and Black women.

“This one is for Hip Hop,” she wrote on X. “I felt heavily inspired by the lineage of Hip Hop and how it contributes to who I am today.

“This is my first self choreographed performance and one of the most important things I wanted to highlight was my connection to black women through Hip Hop.”

She added: “With the help of hair artist Malcom Marquez, we were able to make this symbolic art performance come to life in just a short week.

“A special s/o to some of my inspirations; the incredible [Solange] [Carlota Guerrero] and [MF DOOM] (rip).. A special s/o to my stylist [Sam Woolf] for nailing this look and translating my take on hip hop through clothing!

The rising star concluded: “This is my take on the future of Hip Hop. This is blackness. This is luxury. This is history.”

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Megan Thee Stallion Producer LilJuMadeDaBeat Complains About Spotify Payouts

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LilJuMadeDaBeat, the producer best known for his work with Megan Thee Stallion, is apparently not happy with your Spotify Wrapped — or anyone’s, for that matter.

On Wednesday (December 4), the day that Spotify dropped its popular year-end summaries, the Texas beatmaker shared a message on X that explained why Spotify was his least-favorite streamer.

“I hate that yall actually use Spotify instead of literally ANY other streaming service. They pay us the least,” he wrote.

Check it out below.

 

Spotify dropped a number of year-end statistics this past week, including its most-streamed artists globally for the year — and the highest-ranking rapper on the list was Drake.

He was fourth overall, behind Taylor SwiftThe Weeknd and Bad Bunny. The other rappers in the top 10 were Travis Scott (no. 6) and Kanye West (no. 8).

Drake was also the service’s most-streamed rapper in the U.S., and second overall behind Swift. His rival Kendrick Lamar was seventh on that list, behind Swift, Drake, Zach Bryan, Morgan Wallen, Kanye and Future.

When it comes to Apple Music, Kendrick had a notable upper hand, as his Drake diss “Not Like Us” was the most-played track of the year worldwide.

The streaming service made the announcement on Tuesday (November 3), as it rolled out its “Top Songs of 2024: Global” playlistShaboozey‘s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” was fourth, while Post Malone‘s duet with Morgan Wallen, “I Had Some Help,” was in the number six slot.

Kendrick actually appeared in the top 10 for a second time, via his beef-starting feature on Future and Metro Boomin‘s “Like That” (no. 8).

“Not Like Us” actually received even more attention in recent days following Drake’s bombshell legal filings against Universal Music Group.

The chart-topping diss song is at the heart of the dispute, with Drizzy accusing UMG of artifically boosting the track’s popularity through the use of streaming bots and payola.

He has also claimed that UMG — the parent company of his label Republic and Kendrick’s longtime home of Interscope — defamed him by knowlingly releasing a song that accuses him of being a pedophile.

Since he filed the petitions on November 25, sales of “Not Like Us” have increased by a staggering 440 percent, while streams of the song have jumped by 20 percent, according to Talk of the Charts.

“Not Like Us” has also zoomed back up the charts of both Apple Music and Spotify, enjoying a 16-place climb on the latter’s Global chart.

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