Doechii and SZA End 2025 With the Resilient ‘Girl, Get Up’
New collaboration is produced by Jay Versace and samples Birdman and Clipse's classic, "What Happened to That Boy"
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New collaboration is produced by Jay Versace and samples Birdman and Clipse's classic, "What Happened to That Boy"
Doechii is closing out 2025 with a new collaboration with SZA, “Girl, Get Up.”
Produced by Jay Versace, “Girl, Get Up” blends a punchy, stripped-back drum groove — sampled deftly from Birdman and Clipse’s classic, “What Happened to That Boy” — with atmospheric synths. It offers Doechii the perfect platform to ruminate on life and retort the hate. Saying she’ll address the misogyny flung her way on her next album, Doechii continues, “For now, let’s sink into the fact that hate don’t make you powerful/Y’all monitoring spirits, go monitor that checkbook/Fashion week was radical, diamonds what my neck took/Tried to turn the other cheek, but y’all just too damn extra.”
Meanwhile, SZA holds down the song with a simple but infectious hook, crooning, “I be in the back levitating, doing meditation, hear me girl, get up/Taking on all confrontation, fuck a limitation, hear me girl, get up/Somehow I know that I’ll have everything, it’s mine, mine, mine.”
“Girl, Get Up” is the last song in Doechii’s “Swamp Sessions” series, in which she tried to write a song in an hour, and then pair the track with equally compelling visuals. Other tracks in the series include “Nissan Altima,” “Bullfrog,” and “Catfish.”
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The collab with SZA is also one of a handful of new singles Doechii released this year as she continued to build on the success of her breakthrough Grammy-winning 2024 album, Alligator Bites Never Heal. Her biggest track of 2025 was “Anxiety,” a song originally released in 2019, but re-recorded and reissued earlier this year after it started gaining traction on TikTok. The track helped Doechii earn five Grammy nominations, including Record and Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance and Song, and Best Music Video.
Along with “Anxiety,” Doechii also dropped the solo track “Nosebleeds,” and several collaborations, including “ExtraL” with Jennie and “Beat a Bitch Up” with Alameda.” She also hopped on a remix of the Weeknd and Playboi Carti’s “Timeless.”