Doechii

My music is dedicated to all those who have encouraged me to strive for excellence and even to those who may have doubted me along the way.

I love mysterious women who have this sacred feeling about them, because I'm just not that girl. I could never be mysterious. I talk too much.

I know that after me, there's going to be more female rappers that are a part of TDE. I want to make sure that I do everything, so that the next girl feels comfortable doing everything.

I know I've got a hard rap mixtape but I'm a rockstar, and I love pop music. It's not hard for me to genre bend - I'm a chameleon when it comes to music.

The name Doechii came to me in a really dark time. I was looking for Doechii to be somebody that I wasn't ready to be at the time, but I always knew Doechii and Jaylah were one person. God showed me and now I know my destiny and purpose.

Where I grew up in my city, there was no one who acted like me, so I felt insecure, and when I would read those books - Junie B Jones, or Dr Seuss - those characters felt like me. It didn't teach me good morals, but in other ways it kind of did. It gave me the bravery to be myself because I saw somebody else being like me.

There's so much culture in Tampa - whenever people think about Florida, they only think about, like, Miami, but Tampa has so much talent.

I've dated bisexual men, no problem.

Before I get into a place of creating a body of work, I'm usually thinking about the life lessons that I have learned and what things I need to learn. As I'm making any project, I'm genuinely growing because that's what it's about, right?

I dedicated myself to sobriety, and God told me that I would be rewarded and that he would show me just how good it can get.

Anyone who doesn't think that hip-hop is an intellectual genre, I think that assumption is rooted in racism.

Crazy' is about uncontained power, creativity, and confidence.

Whether I'm working on choreography or undergoing a glamorous transformation, I draw inspiration from my memories of resilience and artistry of drag queens in Ybor City and the energy of ballroom culture in N.Y.C.

My obligation as an artist is to be completely honest and to also show people themselves through me; that's my job.

To even be peers with her, to be getting honored along with artists as big as SZA is amazing.

Paramore was my first introduction to rock music.

I just needed to love myself as an artist and now that I do, I want to be the best.

I literally do not pick up my phone until I have done my full routine for myself, because if I start catering and emptying my cup before I fill it, it's not going to be a good day.

I had a hoodie business, but I was secretly making music. So it wasn't anything serious until I dropped my first song, and then I was like, 'I think I want to do this.'

I'll never lock myself down to one particular style. It's not me. It never will be me.