Doechii‘s four Grammy nominations, including Best Rap Album and Best New Artist, may have caught a lot of people by surprise — but not the rapper herself.
When talking to HipHopDX‘s Jeremy Hecht at the Give Her FlowHERS gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday (November 8), Doechii said that while receiving the nominations felt “incredible,” there was another feeling at play as well.
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“I’m having déjà vu — it feels like I’ve been here before,” she told Hecht. “I feel like I’ve received this before. So I feel aligned.”
Check the interview below.
The TDE artist also said that her labelmate ScHoolboy Q should have received some awards love.
“He deserved that spot as well,” she said. “I think that we both have very strong projects.”
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Doechii’s awards success shows validates early support from none other than Kendrick Lamar, who crowned her the “hardest” rapper in the game right now in a rare social media post last month.
Alongside the artwork for the Top Dawg Entertainment signee’s recent mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, Kendrick wrote on his Instagram Stories: “the hardest out [alligator emoji].”
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Unsurprisingly, Doechii was very appreciative of the lofty praise and replied via her own Instagram page: “Thank you Dot. You the greatest.”
She later added: “Getting your flowers while you can still smell them >>>.”
The shoutout did not come out of the blue, as Doechii stars in a new CashApp commercial that was made by Lamar’s creative company pgLang, proving he still has close ties to his former label.
Doechii just recently spoke about wanting to collaborate with Kendrick Lamar, although she admitted that she doesn’t quite feel ready yet.
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“I don’t assume anything and I also don’t feel entitled to a Kendrick feature but I would absolutely love that. That’s the goal,” she said on The Joe Budden Podcast. “I’m sure that, like, for my debut project, eventually I’m gonna ask Top [Dawg] if he could ask Kendrick, or ask Kendrick myself and see what comes from that.
“But I’ma be real, I don’t think I have the record right now for that opportunity. I think I would have to come a certain way and I don’t think I’m ready for that.”
