Doechii has turned the tables on critics claiming she seems to be like a person, unveiling her male alter ego, Ricardo.
The eclectic artist lined Paper Journal following the discharge of her newest mixtape, Alligator Bites By no means Heal, the place she debuted the brand new character.
Whereas her Swamp Princess persona takes middle stage within the undertaking, Doechii created her male alter ego in response to criticism of her look.
“Final 12 months, I began seeing feedback from individuals who would say, ‘She seems to be like a person,’” she defined. “Or, ‘She has on an excessive amount of make-up. She seems to be like a drag queen.’ All these feedback by no means trouble me, as a result of I simply discover it attention-grabbing. However I used to be like, ‘Since they preserve saying I appear to be a person, I’m gonna f###### give them a person.’”
She settled on the identify Ricardo, deciding he can be a bisexual Panamanian “eight-pack, mustache man.””
Doechii revealed she had all the time needed to rework herself utilizing prosthetics and had a good time entering into the Ricardo character. “Actually, after I placed on the prosthetics, I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, I’m drawn to myself proper now. I want I may f### me,’” she mentioned.
The High Canine Leisure artist additionally revealed how her labelmates have supported her.
“[Schoolboy] Q has given me a variety of recommendation and so has SZA,” Doechii shared, including that she requested the Blue Lips creator how he is aware of when an album is full.
“He instructed me, ‘ your album is completed when you don’t have anything left to say,’” she recalled. “That basically hit me, and I used to be like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna preserve writing and pouring my coronary heart into this till I’ve actually nothing left to say.’”