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\n\tJust before 2025 came to a close, Doechii<\/a> dropped a new song called \u201cGirl, Get Up<\/a>.\u201d What got the most attention wasn\u2019t the feature from SZA, or the synthy sample of Birdman and Clipse\u2019s 2002 hit \u201cWhat Happened to That Boy.\u201d It was Doechii\u2019s lyrics, where she delivered a very pointed in\/out list for the new year. In: drinking kombucha, getting good sleep, and meditating. Out: misogynistic assholes on the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tIf you\u2019re a woman in the music industry, the \u201cout\u201d is familiar territory. Doechii has been battling<\/a> these guys since 2024, ever since she broke through with her excellent full-length debut, Alligator Bites Never Heal<\/em><\/a>, winning a Grammy for Best Rap Album (and, as she brags on \u201cGirl, Get Up,\u201d a co-sign from Kendrick Lamar). Despite making music for over a decade now, finding mainstream success resulted in the internet accusing the Florida rapper of being an \u201cindustry plant,\u201d specifically controversial streamer Adin Ross<\/a>, who called her out on his Kick channel<\/a>. Doechiii fires back at these claims on the track: \u201cAll that industry plant shit wack\/I see it on the blogs, I see you in the chats,\u201d she says, adding, \u201cY\u2019all can\u2019t fathom that I work this hard\/And y\u2019all can\u2019t fathom that I earned this chart.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSo what exactly is an \u201cindustry plant\u201d? It\u2019s a term lobbed at artists in an attempt to discredit them, to question their authenticity and to suggest their rise to fame couldn\u2019t have happened organically \u2014 that there were marketing ploys and executives pulling the strings, manufacturing their artistry behind closed doors, or maybe their parents just have connections in the music industry. And though some male musicians, like the British rocker Yungblud<\/a> or the R&B singer 4batz<\/a>, have faced industry plant accusations, anyone paying attention can see that this term is mostly directed at female musicians.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s such an insane fucking double standard,\u201d Phoebe Bridgers said<\/a> <\/em>in 2020. \u201cIf you have wealthy parents, you\u2019re not allowed to make music as a woman, but you\u2019re rewarded for it as a man. Every white boy who is mediocre is an industry plant by that standard.\u201d Or, as Wet Leg<\/a>\u2019s Rhian Teasdale told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> in 2022: \u201cWhen it comes down to it, it\u2019s just misogyny, isn\u2019t it? If people are gonna troll us, then I\u2019m definitely gonna troll them back.\u201d<\/p>\n