Doechii is back at Genius to discuss her latest hit “Alter Ego.” The electrifying song features fellow Florida native JT and is produced by Zach Witness along with the Swamp Princess herself. On today’s episode of Verified, watch Doechii dissect her rhyme’s and realize an impressive connection in her lyrics in the process.
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00:00My alter ego I would describe as the highest form of myself, powerful, confident, fearless,
00:06swamp girl who's just in her bag and she's on and in a flow. And I think I'm only not being that
00:12when I might have moments where I might allow doubt to come in. I might have moments where
00:17I wake up and I don't feel as confident. My alter ego is really me at my best.
00:22The concept of the alter ego and the power that that holds inspired this song because
00:32in a way I want to always be on. There's this lyric by Kanye West and he said,
00:37you motherfuckers living at half of your level, half of your life. You're living at half of your
00:41potential and I believe that that full potential is resting in this alter ego that you think you
00:45can only be sometimes. My goal is to live in that 100% of the time and really be on
00:51all the time. I knew that I wanted to collaborate with someone with a big personality. I feel like
00:58JT effortlessly, flawlessly, perfectly is that person. That contrast I think is just so beautiful.
01:15It's fuck that hoe to the condom slip. You know what happens when you fucking. Sometimes
01:20it slips. That's how hard it's really fuck you bitch. I really don't like this person.
01:24I think it could be interpreted that I'm kind of talking about somebody else,
01:28but really I'm talking to my lower self.
01:36When it comes to fashion, when it comes to this alternative shit, I'm her, period.
01:41All of these D's that I'm playing with, sometimes I like to play with a very ABC type of rhyme
01:45scheme and I think this is a cool way to do it with cadences and just using different D words
01:51to describe Dolce. Diva, Don Dada, the highest form of black luxury, like Wakanda rich. I'm
01:57just flexing at this point.
02:06Dolce season is just my time, my era, my influence. It's my music. It's the swamp.
02:12It is my time.
02:22I'm that bitch when I am disrupting things, when I can affect people on both ends of the
02:27spectrum, when I can piss you off and when I can inspire you at the same time. You love to hate it.
02:32That's when I know I'm that girl.
02:43The hook for this song feels like this very Na Na Na Boo Boo type of energy,
02:48kind of mocking fearful thoughts, insecure thoughts, and even
02:52mocking the people who are projecting those thoughts onto you. So it's really both. I'm
02:56talking to myself, my lower self, and I'm also talking to other people and we're just like,
03:01bitch, you're not facing me. It's not happening.
03:03LOSER!
03:13It's a utter ego wasting. We could get away.
03:21That's just my alternate. That's just my alternate. That's just my ego. That's just
03:27my alternate. That's just my alternate. That's just my alternate. That's just my ego. We could
03:36get away. All this time that we're wasting on feeling this way, paying attention to petty
03:42people and situations and stuff. We could be dancing. We could be living our lives. We could
03:46be stepping into another era, but instead we're focusing on this. Get into your bag.
03:50Get into your era. Get into your flow. Step into yourself.
03:55Cue the Trojans is a cinematic way to basically say,
03:58round up my team, round up my bitches, round up the troops. We finna go. It's time to turn up.
04:02I don't know if it was intentional, but you start the verse off with,
04:06fuck them until the condom rings.
04:08Yes.
04:08Oh my God. I was not connecting the condom and the Trojans. That's crazy.
04:14My mind, and I didn't even, look, I didn't even know it myself. That's crazy.
04:18That eight. You bitches. I don't even have to try.
04:24Cue the Trojans and it ties into, fuck that whole to the condom slip. Can we please stop it?