Doechii is feeling beyond grateful after her hero, Ms. Lauryn Hill, brought her out to perform a duet of “Doo Wop (That Thing).”
On Saturday (March 8), the Fugees legend surprised the crowd at the Jazz In The Gardens Music Festival by bringing out the Swamp Princess for a rendition of her 1998 classic.
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Sharing a video of the performance to X afterward, Doechii sang Ms. Hill’s praises as she gushed about the experience.
“Thank you Miss Lauryn Hill. Thank you,” she wrote. “My heart is so full. She is my hero. This is the greatest honor hip hop could give me. Praise God … my entire body is vibrating with joy right now. I’ll never forget this day! EVER!”
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In a second post, she added: “I never been so nervous in my life [crying emoji] she is a QUEEN”
Thank you Miss Lauryn Hill. Thank you. My heart is so full. She is my hero. This is the greatest honor hip hop could give me. Praise God 🤎 … my entire body is vibrating with joy right now. I’ll never forget this day! EVER! https://t.co/xOWpSpTyCo
— Swamp Princess🐊 (@officialdoechii) March 9, 2025
I never been so nervous in my life 😭 she is a QUEEN
— Swamp Princess🐊 (@officialdoechii) March 9, 2025
Doechii’s star has continued to rise rapidly following her major win and electrifying performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards last month.
At the ceremony on February 2, the TDE rapper became just the third female artist to win Best Rap Album following Ms. 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.
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In the first full sales week following the show, the album, ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL, 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.”
