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12.10.26
Doechii's Swamp Sessions are back with "BOMBS". The last run ended in a Grammy.
// Coda · 2 min read
Doechii is back in the swamp. The announcement in The Swamp, her Instagram broadcast channel with more than 134,000 members, came in capitals: "SWAMP SESSIONS ARE BACK." Then Doechii herself: "Swamp WAKE UP."
In the video for "BOMBS", which she directed herself, she plays a fembot. She strikes poses, then shoots at the camera from guns built into her chest. The track runs about a minute and a half of fast rapping over theremin-like sounds, and ends on what sounds like a beat switch. Stereogum wondered whether this is the whole song or only part of it.
Last time
The first run started on 12 July 2024: six short rap tracks, each with its own video. "Nissan Altima" was the third. "Boom Bap" closed the series on 23 August. A week later came Alligator Bites Never Heal, which peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200 and won Best Rap Album at the 2025 Grammys.
This time there is no album announcement and no date. The YouTube description under "BOMBS" still links to Alligator Bites Never Heal.
In the rain
We both photographed Doechii at Roskilde Festival on 4 July 2025. It was pouring. She had a stage full of dancers, and the choreography had something of Kendrick Lamar about it. Not a strange thought: she has named him as one of her major influences.
In June she is one of the headliners at Primavera Sound in Barcelona.
In the channel she summed it up herself: "We're so back!"
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