Costume Change
Doechii spends 'Costume Change' as four different performers in under three minutes -- a sneering trap verse, a lounge-singer bridge, a hardcore breakdown, and a gospel-choir outro -- and the seams barely show.
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Neo Soul
Denial Is a River
Doechii stages a full therapy session as a rap verse — funny, self-incriminating, and technically dazzling in the same breath — on the standout from her Grammy-winning Alligator Bites Never Heal.
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Mutt
Leon Thomas compares himself to his own dog on the title track of the album that turned him from a behind-the-scenes songwriter into a Grammy-winning artist in his own right — one of the year's least likely Album of the Year nominees.
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