Nosebleeds

Album: released as a single (2025)
Charted: 113
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Songfacts®:

  • Nosebleed seats are the ones so high up in the stadium that you might get a nosebleed from the altitude. In this track, Doechii breaks off a flex we haven't heard before: "I look good from the nosebleeds."
  • Doechii dropped "Nosebleeds" just hours after picking up the win for Best Rap Album (Alligator Bites Never Heal) at the Grammy Awards in 2025. Much of the song is about the ceremony, taking the form of an uncensored acceptance speech. In her actual speech, she pointed out that she's just the third woman to win the award, following Lauryn Hill and Cardi B. She also thanked God, her mom, and her label (Top Dawg Entertainment). In the song, she also thanks her labelmate SZA along with the "hatin'---s stans and the "b--ches I surpassed."

    We're not sure if she had another version of the song ready to go if she lost.
  • The verse where Doechii says, "Is she gonna go crazy?" is a callout to Kanye West's speech when he won the Best Rap Album award in 2005 for The College Dropout, where he said, "Everybody wants to know what I would do if I didn't win... I guess we'll never know."
  • The song was produced by Jonas Jeberg, who also worked on "High Hopes" by Panic! At The Disco and "Maybe You're The Problem" by Ava Max.
  • The crazy mix of flows on "Nosebleeds" is typical Doechii. She can sing, too, as heard on her breakout hit from 2023, "What It Is (Block Boy)."

    She also addresses herself a lot in her songs, as she does here: "Doechii, where you been?"

    This is her using different characters to tell her stories. You can also hear it in "Denial Is A River," which she performed at the Grammy Awards. In that one, she has a conversation with her therapist.

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