Doechii Drops 'CATWOMAN' Video as Swamp Sessions Rolls Toward Her Debut Album

The Swamp Sessions are moving fast now. Doechii released the video for “CATWOMAN” on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, as the latest installment of the series, Billboard reported via GetUrTix News. The release follows last week’s Swamp Sessions entry, “BOMBS,” and it arrives ahead of the Florida rapper’s debut album — the full-length project listeners have been waiting for since her Grammy-winning mixtape made her one of hip-hop’s defining new voices.

That sequencing matters. According to Billboard, the Swamp Sessions installments are not stray loosies tossed out between cycles; they are the runway. Each short, sharp release lets Doechii test a persona, a flow and a visual world in public, in real time, while the album takes shape behind them. “CATWOMAN” is the second data point in as many weeks, and it points in a deliberate direction: theatrical, funny, dangerous and entirely in control of its own mythology.

A desert, a bazooka and two Doechii

Billboard’s account of the video, as carried by GetUrTix News, describes a clip that opens far from the Florida swamp of her nickname. Doechii walks through a desert in baggy washed denim jeans, a Tap Out waistband and a white sports bra — a look that is more road-movie drifter than comic-book cosplay. Then the premise detonates, literally: the video depicts the “Swamp Princess” being blown to pieces by a Catwoman version of Doechii holding a bazooka.

The joke is also the thesis. One Doechii destroys another. The artist who built her name in the swamp is blown apart by the artist as feline anti-heroine, and what rises from the blast is a third look entirely: Billboard reported that Doechii then appears with an Afro, wearing black denim, heels and matching sunglasses. In under the length of a single short video, she cycles through drifter, villain and icon — a costume-change argument that no single version of her is the whole story.

That shape-shifting has been the Swamp Sessions signature from the start. The series format — short songs, striking videos, minimal warning — rewards an artist who can establish a character in seconds and discard her just as quickly. “CATWOMAN” uses the format at full stretch: the desert gives the clip a bright, exposed backdrop, the bazooka gag gives it a headline image, and the final look gives it the still that will travel furthest on social feeds.

Old references, worn lightly

The record itself is built from hip-hop memory. According to Billboard, the song recalls Doechii’s own 2024 track of the same name, folding her catalogue back on itself. She pays homage to Busta Rhymes with a “woo-hah” ad-lib — a nod to one of rap’s most recognisable eruptions of energy — and name-checks actor Sean Connery and his history playing James Bond. Her verses also reference 2Pac, Billboard reported.

Read together, those references are a syllabus. Busta supplies the velocity and the vocal theatre; Connery and Bond supply the cool, suited mythology of a character who reinvents himself for every mission; 2Pac supplies the confessional intensity and the sense that a rap verse can carry a whole worldview. Doechii is not hiding her influences inside the record — she is itemising them, the way a student shows her working.

'Relearning Hip-Hop as a student'

That student framing is hers, not ours. Billboard reported that Doechii, a TDE rapper and Grammy winner, shared a journal entry about what fans can expect from her first full-length album. “I spent the last few years relearning Hip-Hop as a student,” she wrote. She added that she feels inspired to contribute to the genre’s evolution.

It is a striking posture for an artist at her level of acclaim. The Grammy already happened; the breakout already happened. Yet the journal entry describes apprenticeship rather than arrival — years spent studying the form she is now expected to lead. The Swamp Sessions, in that light, read as coursework made public: short exercises in flow, character and reference, released weekly while the larger thesis — the debut album — is assembled.

There is also a quiet confidence in releasing the homework. Artists building toward a debut album often go silent, protecting the reveal. Doechii is doing the opposite, publishing the process itself and letting the audience watch the style evolve from installment to installment. “BOMBS” last week and “CATWOMAN” this week establish a cadence; if the cadence holds, the conversation around the album will be continuous rather than a single launch-week spike.

The year that led here

Earlier in 2026, Doechii collaborated with Lady Gaga on “Runway,” which appeared on the soundtrack for The Devil Wears Prada 2. The song peaked at No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100, according to Billboard. A fashion-film soundtrack collaboration with one of pop’s defining stars, a top-50 Hot 100 placement, and now a self-mythologising rap series: the year has shown her range in three different registers.

What “CATWOMAN” adds is authorship. The Gaga collaboration placed her inside someone else’s world, however glamorous. The Swamp Sessions are her world entirely — her nicknames, her references, her doubles blowing each other up in the desert. Billboard’s reporting gives no album title or release date yet, and Previously is not inventing one. What the reporting does establish is momentum with a method behind it: a Grammy-winning TDE rapper, studying in public, turning the wait for her debut album into a series worth following on its own terms. The Swamp Princess may have been blown to pieces in the video. The artist who aimed the bazooka is very clearly still standing.

For more on her catalogue and career, see Doechii’s page in Previously’s Music section, and read our earlier coverage of the Swamp Sessions revival in the newsroom archive.