
Doechii’s Alligator Bites Never Heal: Evolution, Not Imitation (w/ Ausar Stephens & Poetry Salaam)
🎧 This week on I’ve Been Meaning To Listen To That, we dive into Aligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii with special guest Poetry Salaam & Ausar Stephens ( @RealSpacial ) 🚀
🔑 Key Topics:
• How Doechii offers up a blueprint for up-and-coming artists in the digital age and demystifies the creative process through jaw-dropping vulnerability
• Is “Alligator Bites Never Heal” the rightful successor to The College Dropout, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, and Beam Me Up Scotty?
• Does “Denial Is A River” serve as a comedic parallel to Kendrick Lamar’s “Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst”?
• What’s the deeper meaning behind the past tense in “I’m dead, she’s dead, just another Black Lives Mattered”?
• And more!
Don’t miss this in-depth breakdown of a Grammy-winning hip-hop masterpiece! 🐊
Check out Ausar’s excellent, DOECHII-APPROVED (for real!) video essay & documentary: “The Untold Story of Doechii: From Rejected to Respected” 🎬🔥
Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAturPL1Nas
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PATREON SUPPORTERS:
Sean Wilkinson
Samuel Lee
Stenley Philippe
Jon Butts
Tanner Richard Craft
Kiersten Nickel
Peter Lee
Timestamps:
0:00 - Cold Open
0:52 - Theme Song
1:31 - Intro
4:07 - Preconceived Notions
19:37 - What Is It About Doechii?
34:25 - Themes
56:51 - Highlights
1:26:41 - Lowlights
1:29:05 - Stray Observations
1:32:46 - Final Thoughts
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Cover Art by Megan Rika Young (Twitter: @meganrika Instagram: @meganrika)
Theme Song by OTNES (Twitter: @mxotnes Instagram: @mxotnes)
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