Doechii's "LOCK JAW" Swamp Session: The Credits Behind All Three So Far

By Dani Reyes,

Cypress trees draped in Spanish moss standing in still green swamp water under a pale sky

What's out

Doechii posted "LOCK JAW | Swamp Sessions" to her official YouTube channel on Friday, October 30. Per Interscope Capitol's release, "The video is the third in a series of freestyle Swamp Sessions she’s shared this month while continuing to work on her debut album."

That's the whole announcement. No album title, no date, no tracklist.

The title comes from a lyric. HotNewHipHop's lyric transcription includes the line "Face give 'em whiplash, body give 'em lockjaw."

Doechii: "LOCK JAW" (Swamp Sessions)

The Swamp Sessions so far

Three videos in 18 days:

This run is a revival. The first Swamp Sessions came out ahead of her 2024 mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal, and Pitchfork notes that several of them, including "NISSAN ALTIMA" and "CATFISH," ended up on the tape. Then the series was supposed to be done. When "girl, get up." with SZA came out in December 2025, Rolling Stone called it "the last song" in the series.

October undid that. She brought the series back with "BOMBS" on October 12, and she's kept a steady pace since.

Behind the boards: who made the beats

Doechii's team prints credits in the YouTube descriptions, and they split the video crew from the music.

The "BOMBS" description reads "Produced by: Kal Banx." The "CATWOMAN" description reads "Produced by: Real Bad Man and Kal Banx." So far, Kal Banx is the one constant on the music side.

"LOCK JAW" breaks the pattern. Its description is the longest of the three: production company Adele Drive, an 11-name cast, a production designer, an art director, a gaffer, hair, makeup. What it doesn't have is a "Produced by" line for the music. The two "Producers" it does list, Anthony Moosa Tiffith and Langston Griffith-Siebens, sit in the video block next to the production company. I won't guess at the beat. Right now, no producer's name is on it in public.

Two other threads run through all three. Adele Drive is credited as the production company on every video, so it sits on the film side of the credits. And Carlos Acosta edited all three.

What the critics hear

I'll let the critics describe the sound. On "BOMBS," Billboard's Michael Saponara wrote that she raps "over glitchy, anxiety-inducing production." On "CATWOMAN," Stereogum's Tom Breihan heard "a tingly boom-bap beat."

On "LOCK JAW," Breihan writes, "There's a bit of hyperpop in the spaced-out, fluffy pop chorus, but Doechii also gets into her deeply Southern Trina-style snarl-rap mode." HotNewHipHop's Gabriel Bras Nevares calls it "a clubby cut."

My take: glitchy, then boom-bap, then a pop chorus in a club record. Three looks in 18 days, with Kal Banx's name on two of them. That's a range test.

What she's said about the album

With "BOMBS," she posted a handwritten journal entry to her Instagram Story. Billboard quotes it: "I spent the last few years relearning Hip-Hop as a student. Studying its language, history & roots. Now I feel inspired to contribute to evolve it." And: "A mission is brewing inside of me (a responsibility really) to see black womanhood exist at the center of Hip-Hop AND Pop."

Pitchfork points out she "has yet to release an official debut album." Alligator Bites Never Heal was a mixtape, and it won best rap album at the 2025 Grammys, per Billboard.

What's confirmed: an album in progress, three Swamp Sessions this month, two named beatmakers. What's open: the title, the date, whether any of these songs make the album, and who produced "LOCK JAW."

My read

The first Swamp Sessions fed a Grammy-winning tape. This run reads like the same move: try ideas in public, keep what lands. I'd watch the credit lines as closely as the videos. Two of three name the beatmaker, and the newest one doesn't.

Dani Reyes, Behind the Boards. Credits check: Kal Banx on "BOMBS." "LOCK JAW" lists no music producer.

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