Doechii has joined forces with SZA for a brand new track — and he or she has just a few issues to get off her chest.
Launched without warning on Tuesday (December 30), “Lady, Get Up” finds the burgeoning famous person addressing her detractors’ claims that she’s a so-called “trade plant.”
“All that trade 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’ / However what’s the agenda when the ‘it’ lady Black? / Y’all can’t fathom that I labored this difficult / 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 Occurred to That Boy,” the observe additionally finds Doechii hinting at extra robust 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sink into the truth that hate don’t make you highly effective,” she raps, earlier than including: “The album six months outdated, it want a fuckin’ babysitter / I did eight years of failin’, plus a variety of chilly winters / Was once a starvin’ artist, now I would like the entire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 circulation to a piercing falsetto.
“Lady, 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 track caps off a banner 12 months for the self-proclaimed Swamp Princess, who stole the present on the 2025 Grammy Awards the place she delivered an enthralling efficiency and emotional acceptance speech after turning into simply the third girl to win Greatest Rap Album for Alligator Bites By no means Heal.
“I do know that there’s some Black lady on the market, so many Black girls on the market, which can be watching me proper now, and I need to let you know, you are able to do it. Something is feasible,” she stated to a standing ovation contained in the star-studded Crypto.com Area.
“Don’t permit anyone to challenge any stereotypes on you that let you know you may’t be right here, that you just’re too darkish or not good sufficient or too dramatic or too loud. You might be precisely who you might want to be, to be proper the place you’re — and I’m an affidavit!”
Doechii may add to her trophy assortment at subsequent 12 months’s Grammys in February the place she’s up for 5 awards together with File of the 12 months, Tune of the 12 months and Greatest Rap Tune — all for her Gotye-sampling hit “Anxiousness.”
