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| Single by Doechii featuring SZA | ||||
| Released | December 29, 2025 | |||
| Genre | Hip-hop | |||
| Length | 3:08 | |||
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| Producer | Jay Versace | |||
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"Girl,Get Up" is a song by American rapper Doechii,featuring American singer-songwriter SZA. It was surprise-released on December 29,2025,by Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records.
The release of Doechii's 2024 mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal brought her mainstream fame and success. [1] [2] Since then,she began receiving allegations of being an "industry plant",or having acquired her fame through industry connections instead of being self-made,from Internet personalities like streamer Adin Ross. [3] [4] Her music became a subject of online backlash as well. Her discography was called "Harriet Tubman music" or "slave music" after a TV performance of "Boiled Peanuts" –named after a snack introduced to the Southern United States by slaves from West Africa – went viral on social media. [1] [5] Doechii was accused of being in an "anti-male agenda" due to an offhand remark she made on First We Feast about heterosexual men being a "red flag". [1]
Commentary pieces about the sociopolitical motivations behind the online backlash were published on the magazines Billboard and Rolling Stone . [1] [5] Andre Gee,writing for Rolling Stone,said that the accusations Doechii received were not only unsubstantiated,but also misogynistic and racist. [1] Gee wrote:"Watching her rise feels like a return to a bygone era of the music industry that Gen Z fans have never seen in a hip-hop context. Maybe that's why some are so skeptical about her. [...] But the loudest online discourse feels more like projections of misogyny,queerphobia,colorism,and a fundamental misunderstanding of how the industry works." [1]
"Girl,Get Up" was written as a response to the aforementioned online backlash. It features American singer-songwriter SZA,with whom Doechii first collaborated in 2022. [3] [6] The song is a hip-hop track; [7] it samples Birdman and Clipse's "What Happened to That Boy" (2002),combining mellow synthesizers with the sample's guitars and drum grooves. [8] [9] Doechii and SZA co-wrote "Girl,Get Up" with Darius "Dixson" Scott and its producer,Jay Versace. [10] [11]
Jason P. Frank of Vulture summarized the song as "both a flex and a therapy session". [9] In the lyrics,Doechii flaunts her accomplishments,such as a co-sign from rapper Kendrick Lamar,and responds to people who have doubted her rise to fame. She raps that her detractors hate her because they refuse to acknowledge the efforts she made to be successful. [3] [12] She denounces comments accusing her of being an industry plant,having a drug addiction,or making a deal with the devil:"All that industry plant shit wack [...] Y'all wanna believe I'm on drugs and forsaken / They won't credit me,so they blame it on Satan / Blame it on my label,blame it on my team / End of the day,everything is on me." [9] Doechii attributes the backlash to misogynoir ("You suck every rap nigga dick from the back / But what's the agenda when the it girl Black?"), [6] using it as an opportunity to tease an upcoming album ("These niggas misogynistic,I'll address it on the album"). [9] [12] She mentions that her album is "six months old" and "need[s] a fucking babysitter",which sparked speculation about a release date. [12] SZA appears on the song's hook,singing words of affirmation:"Fuck a limitation,leave me,girl,get up / Somehow I know that I'll have everything that's mine." [9] [13]
"Girl,Get Up" was written as the last entry on Doechii's Swamp Sessions series. Each song on Swamp Sessions would be written in under an hour and released with a music video. [8]
| Chart (2026) | Peak position |
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| Australia Hip Hop/R&B (ARIA) [14] | 19 |
| Canada Hot 100 ( Billboard ) [15] | 81 |
| Estonia Airplay (TopHit) [16] | 100 |
| New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ) [17] | 3 |
| Nigeria (TurnTable Top 100) [18] | 80 |
| UK Singles (OCC) [19] | 79 |
| UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC) [20] | 40 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 [21] | 57 |
| US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [22] | 12 |
| US Rhythmic Airplay ( Billboard ) [23] | 25 |
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