Doechii‘s star continues to rise following her major win and electrifying performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
At the ceremony on February 2, the TDE rapper became just the third female artist to win Best Rap Album following Lauryn Hill in 1997 (as part of the Fugees) and Cardi B in 2019. She also delivered one of the standout performances of the night, running through a medley of “Catfish” and “Denial Is A River” that further showcased her electric stage presence and theatrical, finely-tuned choreography.
Now in the first full sales week following the show, the album, ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL, has shot up to the No. 14 spot on the Billboard 200 with sales of 31k – becoming her first-ever top 20 album.
The effort more than doubled in weekly sales.
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Additionally, “Denial Is A River” is now her highest-charting single on the Hot 100 after rising to the No. 27 spot.
Hours after her Grammy win, Doechii celebrated her historic night by dropping a new song that nods to a classic Kanye West moment at the awards show.
“Nosebleeds” finds the Florida native putting her spin on Ye’s famous Grammys acceptance speech from 2005 when he won the same award for The College Dropout.
“I don’t know, is she gonna go crazy? Is she gonna go crazy? / Errbody wanted to know what Doechii would do if she didn’t win / I guess we’ll never–,” she raps on the thumping, shape-shifting track.
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The lyrics call back to West’s aforementioned speech where he said: “Everybody asked me the question, they wanted to know, I know he’s gonna wild out, he’s gonna do something crazy! Everybody wanted to know what I would do if I didn’t win… I guess we’ll never know.”
The song follows the release of the cinematic delight that is her music video for “Denial Is A River” – following a bit of a cryptic rollout that had fans wondering what it would be.
Leading up to the video’s release last month, the TDE rapper dropped a handful of hilarious 90s sitcom-style teaser clips from what she dubbed the Denial Is A River Show. It led to speculation she may be dropping a whole series of sorts, but it turns out they were cleverly-crafted promos filmed while making the music video for the Alligator Bites Never Heal song with a star-studded list of guest appearances that includes Zack Fox, Earl Sweatshirt, Teezo Touchdown, DJ Miss Milan, ScHoolboy Q, SiR, Baby Tate, Rickey Thompson and H Wood.
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In the final product, Doechii and her guests have a chaotic house party of sorts as she raps about her rise to fame the last few years – then closes things out with a bang quite literally as the soundstage-built set explodes.
