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Doechii has joined forces with SZA for a brand new music — and he or she has a number of issues to get off her chest.
Released unexpectedly on Tuesday (December 30), “Girl, Get Up” finds the burgeoning famous person addressing her detractors’ claims that she’s a so-called “business plant.”
“All that business plant shit wack / I see it within the blogs, I see you within the chats / ‘You sucked each rap n*gga dick from the again’ / But what’s the agenda when the ‘it’ lady Black? / Y’all can’t fathom that I labored this tough / And y’all can’t fathom that I earned this chart,” she spits in a defiant second verse.
Produced by Jay Versace and sampling the instantly-recognizable percussion from Birdman and Clipse‘s “What Happened to That Boy,” the monitor additionally finds Doechii hinting at extra sturdy phrases for her critics on her upcoming album.
“These n*ggas misogynistic, I’ll handle it on the album / For now, let’s sink into the truth that hate don’t make you highly effective,” she raps, earlier than including: “The album six months outdated, it want a fuckin’ babysitter / I did eight years of failin’, plus numerous chilly winters / Used to be a starvin’ artist, now I would like the entire dinner.”
SZA, in the meantime, enhances her fellow TDE labelmate with a clean refrain that showcases her vocal vary, surging from a laidback move to a piercing falsetto.
“Girl, Get Up” is the second collaboration between Doechii and SZA, who beforehand linked up on “Persuasive (Remix)” from the previous’s 2022 EP she / her / black bitch.
The music caps off a banner yr for the self-proclaimed Swamp Princess, who stole the show at the 2025 Grammy Awards the place she delivered an enthralling efficiency and emotional acceptance speech after changing into simply the third girl to win Best Rap Album for Alligator Bites Never Heal.
“I do know that there’s some Black lady on the market, so many Black ladies on the market, which can be watching me proper now, and I wish to inform you, you are able to do it. Anything is feasible,” she stated to a standing ovation contained in the star-studded Crypto.com Arena.
“Don’t enable anyone to venture any stereotypes on you that inform you you possibly can’t be right here, that you just’re too darkish or not sensible sufficient or too dramatic or too loud. You are precisely who it is advisable to be, to be proper the place you might be — and I’m a sworn statement!”
Doechii might add to her trophy assortment at next year’s Grammys in February the place she’s up for 5 awards together with Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Rap Song — all for her Gotye-sampling hit “Anxiety.”