Faith and Sobriety Helped Doechii Create Grammy-Winning Album
By Movieguide® Contributor
Rapper Doechii won big at this year’s Grammys and credited God and her sobriety as the reason for her success.
“I put my heart and my soul into this mixtape. I’ve bared my life,” she said during her acceptance speech for Best Rap Album. “I went through so much. I dedicated myself to sobriety, and God told me that I would be rewarded and that He would show me just how good it can get.”
Doechii is open about her sobriety and said that drugs and alcohol were getting in the way as she tried to create her album, Alligator Bites Never Heal.
“I was relying on a source outside of myself and when you rely on a source outside of yourself to create something, you’re not creating from an authentic place, because you’re not yourself,” she explained. “That’s why my project sounds like it does. Because it’s coming from me.”
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Doechii added that the music industry can be a hard place to maintain sobriety, but she has held fast to her commitment.
“At first it was a little bit difficult. But when you get a grip on your environment and you remove those things it’s not difficult for me at all,” she said. “In fact, it’s actually quite simple and it feels good.”
She has also spoken about her lifelong faith, telling The Cut, “I grew up in the church, and we were heavily religious in my household and my entire family.”
“I’m from the South,” the rapper continued. “So a lot of it started Baptist, and then it kind of went into a different form of Christianity. But everybody in my family has pretty much grown up Christian. I sang a lot of Christian music and listened to a lot of gospel music and stuff like that.”
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