Rapper Dochii 26, was the winner of the category of Best rap album of Grammy 2025 . The award, considered the most important in the music industry, took place on Sunday night (2).
With mixtape “Alligator Bites Never Heal” she disputed the category against J. Cole (by the album “Might Delete Later”), Eminem (“The Death of Slim Shady (GRACE COUP)”), Common and Pete Rock (“The Auditorium, Vol. 1”) and Future and Metro Boomin (“We Don’t Trust You”).
Dockii was the only woman in the category, which was repeated throughout the history of Grammy. Until then, only two other women managed to take the gramophone at this point of the awards that is dominated by men: LAURYN HILL and Cardi b .
Hill received the “The Score” award in the 1997 edition of the ceremony, while Cardi B with “Invasion of Privacy” in 2019.
Dockii not only became the third woman in the category, but the first artist to play this award with a mixtape.
In addition to a better rap album, DOCHII also played better rap performance with the “Nissan Altima” fax Kendrick Lamar by “Not like US “.
The rapper also played in the category of revelation artist, who went to singer Chappell Roan.
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Who is Dochii?
Born as Jaylah J’Mya Hickmon, the rapper released her first EP in 2020: “Oh the Places You’ll Go.” The track “Yucky Blucky Fruitcake” went viral at Tiktok in 2021 and placed the singer on the label’s radar.
By Top Dawg Entertainment, she released her second EP: “She/Her/Black Bitch” (2022). Of this, the track “What It Is (Block Boy)” entered Billboard Hot 100 and received over 600 million reproductions on audio platforms globally.
She received the prize of rising artist at the Billboard Women in Music award in 2023.
Dockii has already been touring with rapper Doja Cat and even opened Beyoncé’s shows.
The singer also has in the repertoire partnerships of success. Recently, she participated in Tyler’s new album, The Creator in the track “Balloon”. Their most famous features are “persuasive” with SZA and “phenomenal” with Janelle Monáe.
Its award -winning production is the “Alligator Bites Never Health” itself, which is considered a mixtape and not an album, properly. In this, there are tracks with more than 76 million reproductions in Spotify as “denial is a river”.
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The singer also recorded a Tiny Desk, singing her rap and hiphop tracks with different instruments and building a unique presentation.
By 2025, she already released the song “Nosebleeds”. The cover is a gramophone trophy – the prize she herself took on Sunday (2).
Rapper’s speech was one of the most exciting of the edition
“I put my heart and soul in this mixtape,” said the artist upon receiving the prize. “I opened my life. I went through so much. I dedicated myself to sobriety and God told me that this would be rewarded. ”
“I know there are some black girl out there, so many black women out there, who are watching me and I can say to you: anything is possible,” he continued. “Don’t let anyone project any stereotype to you that says you can’t be here, that you are very black or that you are not smart enough or very dramatic or too noisy. You are exactly who you have to be now where you are and I am a witness to it. ”
*With information from Sandra Gonzalez, from CNN Internacional
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