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As we said in our review of her show in Irving last week, Doechii is a high-energy, risk-taking artist with a strong connection to her fans. She is, we wrote, “the future of hip-hop.”
What some people may not know is that Doechii has a connection to Dallas. Her frequent production collaborator Kal Banx is a Dallas native and did a set at her show at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory on Oct. 29. Miles “Super Miles” Franklin, credited as a producer on her debut Grammy Award-winning mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, is also from Dallas.
So it’s only natural that after her North Texas stop on her Live From the Swamp Tour, she would drop by LadyLove in Bishop Arts, where she lit up fans as she danced on top of the DJ booth during her official afterparty. Openers Ursa Minor, Junkfood DJ and Joaqu.n set the vibes right for Kal Banx to take over the evening.
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Brandon Blue, who was our pick for Best DJ this year, was at the official afterparty and captured the video.
“Around 12:30 a.m., people started to flood in. Doechii’s tour DJs [Banx and Joaqu.n] took over and instantly brought the energy up with Southern classics, and before I knew it…it felt like Doechii just spawned into the booth,” he wrote via Instagram. “lol idk when she even got there but for someone who is on tour and just wrapped up a show just a couple hours ago, she didn’t lack any energy. She was rapping bar for bar with fans, entertaining any camera that was in her face, and then hopped on the booth and essentially gave a mini-performance. Something about LadyLove’s environment made it feel less like a celebrity walkthrough and more like she was just one of the homies.”
