Yes, that's right! Happy Sixth Anniversary, Record Club! Week 1 began on Super Bowl Sunday in 2019, but now it's not on Super Bowl Sunday anymore because the NFL added an extra week to the regular season schedule. So now our anniversary is always during Pro Bowl Weekend, which cuts the irony down like 80%. To celebrate, Record Club alumni the Philadelphia Eagles are going to attempt to win the Super Bowl next week. (Actually, I'm just realizing that tonight is the Grammy Awards, which isn't irony at all. I don't give a shit about the Grammys, except for RC alumni up for awards.)
Thanks for being here, friends. It's been a good six years. Let's go another 60.
GALIA'S COMMENTS: "I recently stumbled upon her song 'DENIAL IS A RIVER' and loved it. I thought it was really clever and compelling. I'm not a huge album listener, so I would not have listened to this album in full otherwise, despite being curious about the other songs. So thanks for joining me on this ride to get to know Doechii!"
Record Club:
WEEK 314 — February 2-8, 2025
Alligator Bites Never Heal
by Doechii
LISTEN:
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PICKED BY GALIA
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ALBUM DETAILS
GENRE: Southern hip hop, boom bap, trap, conscious hip hop, alternative R&B, hardcore hip hop
RELEASED: August 30, 2024
LENGTH: 46:53
TRACKLIST:
- STANKA POOH
- BULLFROG
- BOILED PEANUTS
- DENIAL IS A RIVER
- CATFISH
- SKIPP
- HIDE N SEEK
- BLOOM
- WAIT
- DEATH ROLL
- PROFIT
- BOOM BAP
- NISSAN ALTIMA
- GTFO (with Kuntfetish)
- HUH!
- SLIDE
- FIREFLIES
- BEVERLY HILLS
- ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL
LYRICS: Genius.com
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ARTIST DETAILS
PRONUNCIATION: "DOE-chee," which doesn't seem as complicated as I originally thought it would be
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
PRONOUNS: she/her/hers
ABOUT: Jaylah Ji'mya Hickmon was born on August 14, 1998, in Tampa, Florida. Her father was also a professional rapper. She started writing in high school, and released her first song in 2016, called "Girls." Wikipedia states that she went "viral" "on TikTok" "in 2021," with the song "Yucky Blucky Fruitcake." She was signed as the first female rapper under the Top Dawg Entertainment label in 2022. She performed at Coachella in 2023, and received three Grammy nominations in 2024-25. Her rise has been slow and steady, and it feels like she is currently on the precipice of fame.
DISCOGRAPHY: Doechii has yet to release a proper studio LP. Alligator Bites Don't Heal is her third mixtape, and she has also released two EPs.
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ADDITIONAL INFO
READING SOME SHIT: a 2024 feature in Gay Times magazine
WATCHING SOME SHIT: Tiny Desk Concert, December 2024, with seven songs from this album
RECORD CLUB CONNECTIONS: Her very first song, "Girls," shares a name with the band Girls. She has toured with SZA, who is touring with Kendrick Lamar and featured heavily on GNX. She has featured on recent songs by Katy Perry, Janelle Monáe, and Tyler, the Creator, and co-featured on a song with Missy Elliott. Killer Mike recently interviewed Doechii. Just last month, she was a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race (the Doechii song for the lip sync was not from this album).
Doechii is nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys tonight. She is up against Khruangbin (who has been a band for fifteen years and is still nominated for Best New Artist) and Chappell Roan (probably gonna win). "Nissan Altima" is nominated for Best Rap Performance, where she is going against Kendrick Lamar and Future. This album is also up for Best Rap Album, also against Future. Kaytranada is nominated for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical, for mixing Doechii's song "Alter Ego" (that's the song that was featured in the Drag Race lip sync). Plenty of RC alumni nominated tonight, but which RC albums (or their songs) are nominated? Here is what I could find by scrolling through: The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Bando Stone and the New World for Best Progressive R&B Album, "I Am Not Okay" by Jelly Roll (from Beautifully Broken) and "The Architect" by Kacey Musgraves (from Deeper Well), both for Best Country Solo Performance (the former song for Best Country Song too, the latter album for Best Country Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, too), Tigers Blood by Waxahatchee for Best Americana Album, and "b i g f e e l i n g s" by WILLOW (from empathogen) for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals.
Most importantly: Uproxx just released their annual Music Critics Poll, which comes extremely late this year (who the hell gives a shit about 2024 lists by the end of January 2025?!). Still, worth mentioning for a couple reasons. First, because Puke on Your Birthday, for the fifth year in a row, is a contributing critic. I'm not going to link to our entry because it has my full name, which I try to keep off of this blog, but you can easily find it if you navigate the website. Second, because Alligator Bites Don't Heal is #3 on the Top 50 Albums list, which is kinda crazy, and makes me think that I am a terrible critic, if I've never heard of the damn thing until this week. Other RC albums on the list: GNX (#2), Manning Fireworks (#4), Tigers Blood (#5), Imaginal Disk (#18), Deeper Well (#31), plus a bunch of other RC alumni with their newest albums.
MENTIONS ON THE BLOG: I've never heard or read the name even once before Galia picked this album, but I have a feeling that's all about to change.
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OTHER ALBUMS TO CHECK OUT
LAST WEEK'S ALBUM: The Vandalist by Noga Erez, and check out the reviews if you want more info!
RC@5: We're relistening to the Record Club album we featured exactly five years ago this week. The RC album for this week in 2020 was Speed Kills by Chubby and the Gang.
LAST WEEK'S ALBUM: The Vandalist by Noga Erez, and check out the reviews if you want more info!
RC@5: We're relistening to the Record Club album we featured exactly five years ago this week. The RC album for this week in 2020 was Speed Kills by Chubby and the Gang.
SHADOW RECORD CLUB: Each week, I'm exploring a genre of last week's album by listening to one of that genre's top-rated albums. Last week's The Vandalist was a disco rap album (some of the songs, anyway). We're listening this week to Kurtis Blow by Kurtis Blow.
NEXT WEEK'S RC ALBUM: In case you need some extra time with an album to write a review for it, you can get a head start on Dream Fist by EVE 6!
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Happy listening, RC family!
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
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