In a recent TikTok live broadcast, Megan Thee Stallion gushed about her hopes of working with Doechii as she discussed her plans for her next album, which she and fans are referring to as Act III. The rapper said she’s in the midst of bringing it together with a new song and video on the way. Megan also said she’s currently thinking about collaborating with artists she hasn’t worked with before for features, artists “that I listen to on my own time, people that I actually, you know, fuck with.”
As they covered her in a CGI cowboy hat and mustache, many fans typed Doechii’s name into the chat at the mention of album features. “I see Doechii, bitch, I love Doechii,” Megan said. “I do want to do a song with Doechii, bitch. That is on my list. That’s on my album wish list.”
However, Megan took note of how unique Doechii’s output has been. “I really have no song right now,” Megan explained. “I feel like Doechii would be the type of person that you would have to be in the studio to make a song with. I would like to hear a beat that she would like to rap over and also I’m like challenging myself to rap over beats that I wouldn’t normally rap over without losing myself.”
Doechii, of course, has been in high demand after the release of her August 2024 mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal (and especially since becoming the third woman to win the Grammy Best Rap Album in February), but the rising star has emphasized to Rolling Stone she’s gotten here by staying true to herself and her art.
“Not every time, but sometimes the best music that I create is a conversation with me and God,” she told Rolling Stone in September. “It’s almost like another form of prayer. It is therapy. It is when I’m being vulnerable and I’m really working out my own thoughts and feelings on the beat. I think that’s when music becomes very spiritual to me, when I am literally listening for what God is telling me. It’s almost like I’m not moving the pen. It’s really God moving through me. It’s when I’m a vessel. And then I have moments where it’s not that deep and I’m just having fun.”
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Megan Thee Stallion is no stranger to a seemingly fast and furious rise, breaking out in 2019 with her seminal mixtape Fever and earning her first three Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Rap Performance, and Best Rap Song in 2021 (the latter two for “Savage” featuring Beyoncé). She’s worked with a range of women in rap including Cardi B, Latto, Flo Milli, Doja Cat, and Rico Nasty.
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The Houston rapper has spoken to Rolling Stone about the dark sides of her rise too, including being shot by rapper Tory Lanez in 2020. “I want him to go to jail,” Megan said in her July/August 2022 cover story. “I want him to go under the jail.” Lanez is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being convicted as her assailant. Lanez crudely coveted (?) Doechii from behind bars in a new song, rapping “Doechii rappin’ tongues and I lowkey love her/I won’t DM and fuck the chance up that we gon’ be fuckin’/And I don’t wanna be sittin’ in the bed with her one day/She on the ‘Gram lookin’ back like, ‘I know you wasn’t’.”
Meanwhile, Doechii is enjoying the success of her latest single “Anxiety” while Megan rehearses for her second Coachella performance, the second artist on bill for the Sunday shows.
