When Doechii first broke through, in the slipstream of 2020’s autobiographical single Yucky Blucky Fruitcake, she already felt like a fully realised artist – with a clarity to her vision that most usually spend years honing in on.
“I’m meant to blow up, like the white things and soda rockets,” she rapped, prophetically, on a track that traced her journey from class chatterbox who sang karaoke to Paramore behind closed doors, to a star-in-waiting hungry to hit the big time.
