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\n\tTDE\u2019s newest rising star sat down with Apple Music\u2019s Ebro Darden for a conversation about her young career and her critically-acclaimed mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal<\/a><\/em>. Doechii<\/a> credited her love of golden era rap music as a major influence on the direction she decided to take.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWhen people are listening to this project, they\u2019re really witnessing me reconnect with my roots,\u201d she explained. \u201cI learned how to rap through boom bap beats, through classic beats. My first rap that I ever made was a diss track.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe 26-year-old then revealed that she taught herself how to rap \u201cthrough battle-style rapping\u201d and talked about how sobriety has helped her remember why she fell in love with the genre in the first place. \u201cWith me kinda coming back to myself \u2014 I\u2019m recently completely sober: no nicotine, no alcohol, no smoking, no nothing \u2014 I just kinda re-fell in love with Hip-Hop, and I realized that there is a sense of tradition in Hip-Hop that I really want to represent and bring back.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe added, \u201cThere is importance in tradition. I feel like it is important for us to uphold the heart of Hip-Hop, which is lyrical composition, it is skill, it is wittiness, but it is also talking about our feelings, being honest about what we\u2019re going through and connecting us as people.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI feel like, especially in the time of an economic recession, people need to feel things right now and we need to talk about it. And we need to do it through rap, which is why I chose the sonical direction that I chose.I wanna take us back to this classic space in Hip-Hop and just remind people of the traditional roots of where this started \u2014 and do it in my way and push it forward.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe Florida native recently announced<\/a> the Alligator Bites Never Heal Tour<\/em> with the first date being Friday, Oct. 11 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n