Doechii’s Alligator Bites Never Heal: Evolution, Not Imitation (w/ Ausar Stephens & Poetry Salaam)
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🎧 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
Subscribe to our Patreon series: "I've Been Meaning To Watch That"! 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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