Doechii Accepts the Woman of the Year Award

Doechii accepts the Girl of the 12 months Award at Billboard Ladies In Music 2025.

Doechii:

Whats up! The place’s the swamp? Do I’ve any followers in right here? I can not consider this. It was simply two years in the past that I stood on this very stage and accepted Billboard’s Rising Star Award. I had actually carried out so arduous that I danced my sneakers off, and I needed to hop as much as this mic. And now, right here I’m—proper again on the mic. That second actually displays how I’ve approached my complete profession: at all times go full out, at all times go arduous, and at all times be fab. Okay? At all times. So now, as I thank God and my household, I’m standing in a full-circle second as Billboard’s Girl of the 12 months. However extra importantly, I stand right here as a fierce ally. And that phrase, ally, is a key cause why there’s a Billboard Ladies in Music. On the time of the award present’s launch in 2007, girls working within the music enterprise had been drained—uninterested in not getting their fair proportion of seats on the desk, uninterested in not getting the credit score they deserved, or the roses they completely earned for his or her contributions to the business. As a result of y’all, cease chopping up! My level is that this occasion was created out of a necessity. And that phrase, necessity, is necessary. It hits me as a result of my mixtape, Alligator Bites By no means Heal, was an area that I created out of necessity—a necessity for a spot the place I might really feel seen, the place I might really feel heard, and the place I might join with different individuals by way of shared experiences.

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