DOECHII’s Glastonbury Slot is part of her five -year plan

In 2023, Doechii announced that it took three years in five years to become one of the biggest names in music.

“By the fifth year I want to be at the peak,” ” She told Billboard magazine.

“I want to be in my hard era Sasha, at the top of my game with a long way – but I want to reach my equal and never leave it.”

Then it felt like a bold claim.

The rapper, who was born in Florida and the singer scored a couple of viral hits – first and foremost a convincing, marijuana ode, which was on the summer list of Barack Obama – but nothing that went to the main diagrams.

But the jump by 2025 and Doechii-nursed “Grammy” “Woman of the Year“Who is going to play one of the hottest sets at the Glastanbury festival.

It is difficult to determine the turning point. Some people say it’s she Is fascinating the performance on the late show with Stephen Colbert Last December.

Hair, carefully braided to the supporters who are supported, she made a thorough -choreographic execution of cooked peanuts, and refusal is a river – a cartoon in which she trusts her therapist that her boyfriend is cheating on.

Others determine it A tiny desktop concert Released on YouTube two days. A 15-minute set of explosions with Joy de Viv, simultaneously heartfelt and fiery, when the star rattles through Jazzy, full-fledged recreation of her medicine, alligator bites never heal.

In March, she won even more “Grammy” fans, where she won the best rap -album, which made her only a third woman who won this category.

In her speech, she spoke directly to young, black, weird women like her: “Don’t let anyone design on you stereotypes to tell you that you can’t be here that you are too dark or that you are not reasonable or that you are too dramatic or too loud.”

She restricted her victory with an ultra -rise performance, which referred to Michael Jackson, Misi Elliot and Bob Fossa – and ended when she pulled the splits by spending five man’s dancers.

With three performances “Star-shown” only in four months, Doechii became the most spoken new rapper of her generation … Just as she planned.

So where did it all start?

Doechii was born Jayla Jime Hickmon in Tampa, Florida, and her mother “Hardly Christian” home “Mother Moore”.

A paver child who liked to write poems, she invented her alter-ego at the age of 11, after he was angrily mocked at school.

“I was in a position when I was thinking about the murder because the bullying was so bad” She told Dazed Magazine in February.

“Then I realized: I’m not going to do it because they will all get the opportunity to live and I will be dead.”

Over the night, her attitude has changed.

“Jail may have received bullying, but I decided that Doechii wouldn’t be for it” Remember in an interview with Cardon.

“And then”, “” She told the breakfast club“I went to school at this and started music.”

In her teens, she spent four years at the Haward U. Blaik school in the Tampa, after winning the place in the choral program, finally performing this James.

The school unlocking its creativity, which allowed it to conduct classes in everything, from the design of nails and hair, to the ballet, tap, charliding and stage production. However, it was gymnastics that left the biggest impression.

“The way the gymnast trains is really very harsh. It’s brutal, hard and difficult”, She said gay -tims.

“But at some point my gymnastic career, I learned to perceive and love the pain. To consider the pain as I became stronger and better. It caused a deep discipline that never left me.”

The school also helped the teenager accept her sexuality.

“Despite the fact that I was up to date (what I was amazing), I didn’t feel so comfortable until I started to surround myself with more gay mysters at my school.

“Once I had gay -friend, it was:” Okay, I can be myself, I can feel safe, it’s okay, I’m fine. “I have the same friends today and I will have them for life.”

That’s not all they gave her: the same friends convinced Doechii to abandon their ambitions to become a chi -hijaco, and start writing and releasing their own music.

Originally called iamdoEchii, she loaded her first song to the SoundCloud In 2016 and released his debut single Girl Two years later.

It already wore signs of her best work: rhythmically and lyrically deft, and filled with individuality.

“Taking naked / none of them for you“She worsened for a soft electric piano before the bit switched and her rap became more insane. She was unlikely to breath away from the closed bars when she listed her achievements.

“Earning money from my phone finally in your zone. “

The lines were more prophecy than reality. Doechii had a firm next on YouTube, but she still worked in the dawn to bring the ends.

In 2019, it was booked on a New York showcase and jumped on a bus – without money on a return trip.

“At night after I slept in McDonald’s”, “” She remembered in an interview with 2022.

“And then I had to call one of my mom’s friends … And, like, I ask me to sleep in her house. And I ended up there until I came back to my feet.”

Things began to turn over with the output of the 2020s Yucky Blucky FruitcakeNamed after Juni B. Jones’s children’s book, in which Doechii drew her childhood.

According to the lyrics, it was fast (“I try to act reasonably because I want a lot of friends“), competitive (“I get a little tough when I play the game in Tags“) and often broke (“My mom used brands because she needed a little help“).

The song noted the breakthrough in her spelling.

“I lacked this feeling of vulnerability and honesty in my music,” – She said BillboardUntil “I have learned accuracy and just say what it is, for example, on Lucky Blucky Fruitcake.”

The song became viral by winning it with a record deal with the Top Dawg Entertainment – Label, which launched Kendrick Lamar and Sza.

She followed this with the light cereals Persuasiveearning praise from sza (which jumped on reconstruction) and former President Barack Obama.

“I don’t imagine how Obama just called for her song,” she exclaimed. “I just don’t believe it, but if he really does it, it’s crazy.”

Next Doechii collaborated with Kodak Black in Single 2023 What is it (a boy’s block)Earning your first hit in the 40 best.

Then everything was hidden.

The following singles plopped out, and Doechii was as she later wrote in the social media, “drowned in my vices, fighting the differences with my label and creative numbness that broke me.”

Initially, her alligator bites are never healed with a medicine to repeat the template. It came out last August, he entered the American graphics at number 117 and disappeared a week later.

But the reviews were delighted.

Critics loved Acerbic, fun lyrics that have seen Doechii unpacked trials and hardships over the last two years; And they gained praise on bars that resembled great people such as Q-Tip, Lauryn Hill and Slick Rick, at the same time with contemporaries such as Kendrick Lamar.

After a period of murmured rapluda bars, its precision became a sip of fresh air.

“One of the most fully implemented breakthrough albums”, “” wrote Rolling Stone. “If this is the sound of Doechii that pushes for restrictions, slightly friction may not be the worst” Added Pitchfork.

As the word spread, it was booked to play the Kolbert show and the tiny table. These performances lit a rocket under her career. By April, the alligator moved to the top -10 US and UK in the top -40.

Approximately at the same time she bowed to the fan pressure by releasing her song YouTube 2019, AnxietyCrossover on pop rap, based on the sample of the one I knew.

With an attractive video that recovered a full panic attack, he got into the number three in the UK and even brought DOECHII quotes today in the Psychology medical magazine.

“The song and the accompanying video work so well, showing exactly how it is disturbing in our bodies and minds,” Professor Sandra Chafulei wrote.

“Think about fast and short breaths, racing thoughts and worry about things that have not yet happened. Anxiety feels like” alarming “sounds, with a brilliant reflection of how this experience can drive us.”

Since then, Doechii has worked hard on his debut album. There are rumors that she released her on time for her Glastonbury slot on Saturday night, but the perfectionists should be perfect. At the time of writing, she is still in the studio.

Speaking from Dazed, she threw some hints at what is in the store.

“The alligator bites are never cured, the archetype was a hip-hop student. For this next project, I think about how this student is developing.

“Who is it developing? What did she find out? I still unpack how this hero goes into this next project.”

Despite the delay, the DOECHII title remains one of Glastanbury’s largest draws.

It may only perform 45 minutes, but it will make each of them considered.

As the star boasted her singles Bow: “Will she lose if -the? We probably never know the person.“