Alemeda Teases New ‘Beat a B—h Up’ Doechii Collaboration Coming ‘In a Week or Two’

Day 2 of 2025 All Things Go NYC (Sept. 27) boasted what was arguably the astir stacked lineup of the three-day event. Though she graced the Forest Hills Stadium signifier successful Queens aboriginal successful the afternoon, Alemeda near rather the content connected the crowd. An Ethiopian-American instrumentalist whose enactment combines alternative, indie stone and pop, Alemeda is besides the youngest enactment signed to Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), the indie grounds statement that brought the satellite Kendrick Lamar and presently houses Grammy-winning superstars similar SZA and Doechii.

In 2024, TDE announced Alemeda arsenic their newest signee, successful collaboration with Warner Records. Her debut EP, FK IT, arrived the aforesaid day. This year, Alemeda has unleashed a brace of singles, the Rachel Chinouriri-assisted “Chameleon” and “1-800-F**K-YOU,” for which she’s presently prepping an Office-themed music video. As she’s been hitting the festival circuit this year, Alemeda’s besides been teasing different azygous — and it’s a collaboration with Doechii.

“[It’s coming] successful a week oregon two,” she revealed to Billboard backstage aft her set. “It’s called ‘Beat a B—h Up,’ and it’s a pop-punk opus that’s 4 years old. I re-recorded and re-produced it with my favourite producer, Stint, and we kept everything arsenic is. Doechii gave maine hella notes to heighten the song, and she took it to the adjacent level. I sent the opus to her close distant due to the fact that I knew I wanted a pistillate rapper connected it, and she conscionable got signed [to TDE], and I was inactive successful my creator improvement phase.”

This year, Billboard honored TDE CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith with the executive of the year grant astatine the 2025 R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players event. With existent taste juggernauts connected its roster, TDE boasts a storied bequest that Alemeda seeks to permission her people on. “TDE likes to instrumentality their clip and marque definite everything is packaged nicely,” she says. “I took a bully 3 years to fig retired what my dependable is and cleanable my performing. They didn’t conscionable propulsion maine connected large stages similar they could have. They don’t truly unit maine to bash anything, they say, ‘Here are the resources, spell fig it out!'”

With a caller task owed aboriginal this twelvemonth earlier her Dec. 13 birthday, arsenic good arsenic a fewer much unrecorded shows, Alemeda’s mid-twenties are driving the originative process.

“It’s a captious time,” she muses. “I’m astatine a clip wherever I’m having each my f–k-ups and I’m trying to change, truthful my encephalon improvement is inspiring me.”