Doechii joined Ms. Lauryn Hill onstage in Miami over the weekend for a shock duet of Hill’s 1998 Billboard No. 1 hit, “Doo Wop (That Factor).”
The collaboration occurred throughout Hill’s headlining set on the Jazz within the Gardens Competition at Laborious Rock Stadium on Saturday (March 8), marking the Fugees icon’s second stay look of 2025.
“I wish to introduce y’all to a different sister” Hill mentioned earlier than welcoming Doechii to the stage. The rising rapper and singer, who has credited Hill as one in all her greatest inspirations, shared the second with followers afterward, expressing her deep gratitude on social media.
“Thanks Miss Lauryn Hill,” Doechii wrote on X on March 9. “Thanks. My coronary heart is so full. She is my hero. That is the best honor hip-hop may give me. Reward God … my whole physique is vibrating with pleasure proper now. I’ll always remember today! EVER!” She added, “I’ve by no means been so nervous in my life. She is a QUEEN.”
Doechii, contemporary off profitable her first Grammy for Greatest Rap Album, changing into the third lady to take dwelling the trophy following Cardi B and Lauryn Hill. The rapper can also be set for a large competition season, together with a headline slot on the West Holts Stage at Glastonbury 2025—going head-to-head in a much-publicized conflict with Charli XCX, who will headline the Different Stage on the identical time.
She’s additionally on the lineup for Rock en Seine in Paris in August, Forwards Competition in Bristol the identical month, and Roskilde Competition in Denmark in June.
The 26-year-old rap star is getting ready to cement her quantum leap to stardom together with her debut album later this 12 months. On March 4, she dropped her “Anxiousness” single through High Dawg Leisure and Capitol Data, saying the drop roughly half an hour forward of its arrival on X with the only’s cowl artwork, which incorporates a mirrored black-and-white picture of the TDE rapper being linked by her braids.
“Anxiousness” has been trending on TikTok recently, however Doechii carried out the unique model 5 years in the past on her YouTube channel. The one samples Gotye‘s 2011 Billboard Scorching 100 No. 1 hit “Any person That I Used to Know,” that includes Kimbra.
“Denial is a River” from her critically acclaimed 2024 mixtape Alligator Bites By no means Heal turned her highest-charting entry on the Scorching 100, peaking at No. 21.
