Doechii, The Haitian Revolution & The Vivendi Voodoo that THEY do

The Cosmic Synchronicities of the Swamp Princess and Napoleon's Alligator Bite that Never Healed

One day last October I was looking for some new music to listen to on my Apple Music app and I came across a mixtape cover that immediately grabbed my attention.

The iconic image featured a young, dark-skinned Black woman holding what appeared to be an albino alligator. The name of the recording was Alligator Bites Never Heal by the Swamp Princess, Doechii out of Tampa, Florida.

In her Breakfast Club interview, the Grammy Award winning rhyme slinger said that the album title was a “spiritual thing” that just came to her out of the blue.

I listened to the entire mixtape at the time and was impressed with the Leo’s lyrical prowess. I thought her punchlines were clever, and her sonic range was above average. Doechii’s song “Boom Bap” sounds nothing like “Slide” which absolutely bears no resemblance to “Bullfrog.” All are great songs that offer unforced musical variety for a well-rounded listening experience.

I looked at Doechii’s offering as a hint at greater things to come from her. Then I started seeing little clips of her live performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in December. From there, I saw her as a potential generational talent on par with Kanye West.

To be clear, I’m not comparing Doechii to Ye because I see a similarity to him in her style. I’m more so looking at how far her impact on music and fashion can go for this generation of young people, not old heads like myself who enjoy The Honeymooners reruns, and can still remember going to public school to eat fake pizza with mad cheese for lunch. The New York Board of Education actually fed us pizza in the morning. That was almost as retarded as the quart of cow’s milk they gave us to wash it down with.

Anyway, I couldn’t put my finger on what it was about Doechii, but whatever it was, I thought she has that IT factor. It’s not media manufactured hype. It’s real magic. It’s Azè that you inherit from those who came before you.

I was looking at Doechii’s album cover a few days ago and it got me thinking about the Vodun divinity Adjakpa, who is known in Benin as the King of the Swamps. Sometimes his patrons will have crocodile heads covered in white powder in their Vodun shrines and temples.

A representation of Benin’sVodun divinity Adjakpa

Adjakpa is a masculine water spirit within the Mami Wata pantheon, which is a separate line of Vodun divinities onto itself in Benin. The number of spirits under the command of Mami Wata are too many to count.

Saying “Mami Wata communicated with me” is almost like saying “The White House communicated with me.” Yes, you DID receive communication from the White House, but who did you speak to? Was it a mailroom clerk, a janitor, the Vice President, the Secretary of State? Mami Wata is not a “she” or a “he.” It is the gender fluid governing intelligence behind ALL of planet Earth’s waterways (Lakes, Rivers, Lagoons, Swamps, Oceans) whether salty or sweet. Water is MANY things, and so is Mami Wata.

A Mami Wata statue at the entrance of the Sacred Forest in Benin. Photography by Adika Butler for Mind Glow Media

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King Adjakpa’s animal totem is the crocodile. I know, a crocodile is not quite an alligator, but walk with me, because we’re definitely going somewhere.

When I study interesting people I often look at them as an expression of a spiritual archetype. I see beyond their immediate humanity. We are all amalgamations of special forces that other people see, and some forces that we may not even see in ourselves. However, we may feel occasional sparks of intuition about our Secret Selves.

The Haitian Revolution was born out of the self determination of Haitian people who affirmed that they would be free from the brutal yoke of slavery imposed on them by Napoleon Bonaparte. It began on the glorious night of August 14, 1791 with a Vodou ritual by a swamp in the forest of Bois Caïman where a black pig was sacrificed to a Loa within the Haitian Vodou pantheon.

That was the revolt of the human spirit. The subsequent physical revolt of enslaved Haitians against their French enslavers happened a week later on August 21, 1791. Nat Turner honored that phase of the Haitian Revolution by scheduling his own revolt in Virginia exactly 40 years later on August 21, 1831.

Before social media, the internet, the TV or the land line telephone existed Black Americans and Blacks in the Caribbean were on one accord when it came to securing their freedom from a common adversary. All movements in 2025 that intentionally sow the seeds of discord between Blacks in the Caribbean and those in North America come out of the Central Intelligence Agency. You already know this in your heart, but it has to be said.

The name “Bois Caïman” is French, and literally means “Alligator Wood.” Someone said Alligator Bites Don’t Heal, so come and get this medicine to get yourself right as we proceed with the meta-historical narrative. The divinity that Haitian Vodou rebels appealed to for spiritual support at the gator swamp was Erzulie Dantor. Who is Erzulie Dantor, though?

Haitian Vodou divinity Erzulie Dantor.

She is a fiery dark-skinned Divine Mother who was the primary rallying force behind the Alligator Wood (Bois Caïman) ritual in Haiti. Interestingly enough, if we were to identify a woman, who appearance wise, fits in with the Erzulie Dantor archetype it would be the Swamp Princess Doechii, who was born on August 14, 1998. Her actual birth day was on the 207 year anniversary of the Haitian ritual of revolt of August 14, 1791. 2+7=9, which represents the completion of a cycle of birth.

The Divine Mother gives birth to interesting circumstances and people. Again, we are all amalgamations of special forces that people see, and some forces that we may not even see in ourselves. However, we may feel occasional sparks of intuition about our Secret Selves.

Doechii is signed to Capital Records which is under Universal Music Group (UMG). UMG is the same corporation behind both Drake and Kendrick Lamar. It is owned by Vivendi in Paris, France. If you’ve kept up with my work over the last year you may already know that Vivendi was founded in 1853 by Emperor Napoleon III, who was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Yes, we’re talking about the same Bonaparte that Haiti boned apart with backshot sorcery to achieve independence on New Year’s Day of 1804.

Napoleon once said that “my decision to destroy the authority of the Blacks in Saint Domingue (the old French name for Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block forever the forward march of Blacks in the world.”

That quote makes me wonder what will come of Doechii’s relationship with Vivendi moving forward, considering that she embodies a blossoming youthful energy that took a bite out of the family that founded the investment company that finances her music career today.

Will Doechii’s be used as a magical fetish tool to further promote counter culture that undermines the Black nuclear family? She has gone on record in saying that she is bisexual, which is certainly her prerogative. At the same time, today’s entertainment industry is always keen on promoting same sex culture ahead of loving Black heterosexual couplings. This is part of a global political strategy to drive a wedge of disdain between Black men and Black women who make Black babies who give rise to Black futures.

All things are revealed in time, and time heals all wounds of the oppressed. Even alligator bites. Subscribe to my Indivisible College below if you haven’t already, and share this article with a friend. Gratitude.