Meet Doechii’s Secret Weapon DJ Miss Milan

On February 3, 2025By Littum

Doechii is ready to perform at the 2025 Grammy Awards tonight. And if you see footage from a Live Doechii performance, you will see DJ Miss Milan with her signature red hair behind the Grammy-nominated rapper song that matches her energy and hyped audience.

During a recent tour stop on “Alligator Bites Never Heal Tour” in New York City is Milan Caught Behind the stand that serves crispy adlibs and sometimes right next to “Swamp Princess” performing choreography.

“Doechii has the hands of all things from the choreography to the clothes to the makeup look -look for her hair. The lucky part of working with her is that she gives me a lot of free reach to be myself,” Milan, also known as “fairy Vibemother, “said during an interview with USA Today. “She also trusts my vision.”

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“We stand out in our own way based on the honest sisterhood we have with each other,” she continued. “The advent of us who worked together was just something that I feel was super intentional.”

Milan said their work chemistry has always been strong from the start.

It started when she added Doechii to her GirlGVNG playlist on Spotify in 2020, before the artist signed as the first Woman rapper on Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), a much -regarded record label affiliated with stars such as SZA and Kendrick Lamar.

Milan said that Doechii reached out to her via Instagram and thanked her for the location on the playing list, which highlighted female artists at a time when they dominated the music diagrams. Then Milan offered to be her DJ. Their first performance together was on A concert for rising artists in Queens, New York, in 2021.

“I saw the vision beforehand. She already had something at the time. And I just shot my shot,” Milan said. “The very first performance we’ve ever had, we had absolutely no repetitions. We literally just jumped on a flight, went to New York to do this show together and it was like ‘wow.’ You would have thought that we basically knew each other all our lives.

‘Monumental and Historical’

Milan has worked as a DJ for almost a decade. Natives in New York have played everywhere, from basement parties to clubs, at overseas events, and “Somebody’s Uncle’s 60. Backyard Boogie,” she said jokingly.

Milan has always had the ability to connect with new artists. She worked with indie artists on come-up until she got her big break working with Saweetie during her rise to fame after the “icy girl” era. The experience was a precursor to what would come with her collaboration with Doechii.

Their showmanship is compared to other super-duos in hip hop, like Busta Rhymes and his Hypeman Spliff Star. These supportive stars are important and “contributing to the art of Emcee,” an expert who was previously told to US Today told. They are a dying race in the genre because of the shift in culture in live performance. However, Milan said she and Doechii bring this essence and tradition back to the limelight.

“We definitely keep that torch very tall for us black women in music,” she added. “I respect her as the artist. She respects me as a DJ. We are both theater children and we certainly like music.

She continued, “I am one of those DJs that you can literally come and see me DJ outside of working with doechii and I still hit an eight counting. I still have fun you know what I Says?

‘Attitude about gratitude’

Over the next few years, Milan was on the trip in the Florida rapper’s meteoric boom to Mainstream. Doechii was one Supporting action On Doja Cat’s “Scarlet” tour was a opens For Beyoncé’s “Renaissance World Tour” with DJ Khaled in Los Angeles in 2023 and released her critically acclaimed mixtape “Alligator Bites Never Heal” last summer, which led to her own International sold out show.

In November, she received several Grammy Award nikes, including best rap album, best rap performance and best new artist. Her project is among the selected few mixtapes that have ever received a nomination.

Milan reflected on the emotional moment when her manifestations became a reality. She was on a work trip in New Zealand when she learned the news. She is credited as a producer on “Boom Bap”, the especially sarcastic and witty record from Doechii’s project, which includes her DJ rides and vocals.

“I was in shock that it happened. This is something that was so important to her as a body of work and to me as a DJ supporting her,” she said. “This has been a complete dream for me.”

“I was at Grammys two years ago, so Beyonce win one of her Grammys who broke the record for most Grammy winner ever and manifested that one day I should be there with the artists that I really love and Works with, which was Doechii and we will be down there at the tables that received one of our own grammys.

Milan said they are just as yeah. The two have separately spoken publicly about their faith and Chain traveling in the midst of navigating demanding careers. In one Interview about “The Breakfast Club,“Doechii expressed that she hears” from God better when I’m Edru and clear. “

“I was on my sobriety journey, and that’s something we never really discussed with each other,” Milan said. “It was just like a telepathic kind of thing because we both started at the same time, and it was just something that if we both felt individually called to do because we knew we had a bigger mission at hand, and We would get rid of all the distractions and the loads that could take us away from it.

“She is spiritual. I am super spiritual. The fact that we both have the attitude of gratitude that we call it is something that helps us to remain earthy. We also understand that we are doing this with a purpose: To inspire and be effective, especially as black women in the industry.

Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA Today. You can reach her at [email protected].