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• Doechii is from Florida, a state with so many crazy people it became a meme. She's often been called crazy, and although she's a bit fixated on alligators, it's more because she's an outspoken Black woman with a fluid gender identity.
  
  Explaining this song, she said, "'Crazy' is about un-contained power, creativity, and confidence. People call you crazy when they fear you or they don't understand you."
• Doechii wrote this song with her producer, Kal Banx. They teamed up in 2022 when Doechii signed with Top Dawg Entertainment, where Banx often works. The first song they worked on was "Persuasive," Doechii's first release on the label. "Crazy" was released next. Both song appear on her She / Her / Black Bitch EP.
• The music video pushes boundaries and stirred controversy. In it, Doechii fires a shot, killing another woman. She then joins a troupe of other Black women who smash cars, pose and dance. The twist: everyone is mostly naked, although the nudity is obscured.
  
  Doechii got the idea for the video from a tarot card called "The Star." She explained to NPR: "There's a woman who's naked bending in the water, and this is her fullest potential."
  
  Doechii says her nudity is "a symbol of vulnerability, but also ultimate power."
• The music video was directed by C Prinz, whose credits include Chloe x Halle's "Do It" and "Die A Little Bit" by Tinashe. Because of the obscured nudity, the video was age restricted on YouTube, which kept it from trending and banished it from the home page. Prinz made an appeal that she made public, which explains the concept. Here's the full text:
  
  "This film is an expansive metaphor embodying the hardships women go through in their ascension to power. It's a piece that challenges the viewer to look at stigmatized imagery and asks them to see beyond their first impression - to see the female form not in moments of sexuality but instead in moments of truth, intensity and power; to see a woman wielding a gun; to see a woman express vivid, honest emotions. Throughout the film, we express the female-identifying experience through various visual metaphors - to see ourselves for what we all go through, what we survive through and what we transcend. The violence in this film not only is interwoven into the larger theme of giving permission to women to be allowed to experience the world the same way a man does, but, even more so, it plays a critical character. The gunshots fired in this film are symbolic acts, meaning that when Doechii kills the woman in the introduction of the film and is later revealed to be Doechii herself that she killed, we seal in the unifying message: we as women are all subject to the same experience and when you die, I die, and therefore we must stand together.
  
  It's a piece that empowers the exponential capacity of women in the 21st century, in every form of their being. Both myself and Doechii have worked extensively over the last 4 months developing the narrative of this film, intentionally and meticulously crafting each scene and frame to tell a story derived from both of our personal and shared experiences mirroring the character arc of her new album with TDE. We appreciate you taking the time to hear the contextual landscape of this piece."