Doechii admitted she by no means thought Alligator Bites Never Heal would explode, however the mixtape landed her a Grammy and a Billboard Top 10 spot.

Doechii scored a Grammy and a Top 10 Billboard debut with Alligator Bites Never Heal, however revealed she by no means thought the mixtape would take off the best way it did.

The Tampa-born rapper advised People that her 2024 undertaking was extra of a private outlet than a calculated profession transfer.

“No, not at all. I wasn’t even in that mind frame,” she stated when requested if she anticipated the discharge to be her breakout second. “I just wanted to get my story out and say what it is that I wanted to say. It was really an experiment.”

Released in August, the mixtape turned her most vital success to this point.

It climbed into the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 and later earned her a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in February — a historic win that made her solely the third lady to ever take residence the trophy in that class.

The “Anxiety” rapper defined that she had set a private deadline for the undertaking’s launch.

“I had a deadline in my head, and I was like, ‘I just feel like I have to drop it at this time, and if I don’t, I’m going to miss the mark on something within myself,’” she stated. “And so I didn’t expect for it to be nearly as big because right after that I was just like, ‘I’m just going to put this mixtape out, and then I’m just going to go ahead and drop my debut album, and that would be the one.’”

Instead, the mixtape’s sudden momentum shifted her timeline.

“But it ended up becoming way bigger than I expected and pushing things back a little bit,” she added.

Despite the acclaim, Doechii nonetheless hasn’t launched her first full-length studio album.

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