Agreement Looks Like This!

On Doechii, Becoming, and the Cost of Clarity

I love the feeling I get when I’m inspired. Not in the “predictable, planned-it-days-ago” kind of way. I mean real-time, in-the-moment, this-just-happened kind of inspiration. The kind that feels more like a download than a decision.

On this Good Friday, that’s exactly what happened. As I popped open YouTube to scroll the feed, I saw Billboard’s 2025 Woman of the Year, Doechii, had just dropped the official music video for her song ANXIETY.

**Now, for the sake of not going too too deep, let’s just set aside the fact that ANXIETY has quietly become Doechii’s biggest hit to date: charting, streaming, gaining massive attention, and recently being added to an extended release of her Grammy-winning, 2025 Rap Album of the Year. That part almost feels secondary when you’re a fan and you’ve been watching her move toward this kind of clarity all along. Anyway, let’s stay focused.

Five hours in and the video was already over 770,000 views. That alone told me people were feeling something but when I clicked play, I understood exactly what.

This wasn’t just a music video. It was a mirror.

Directed by James Mackel for Adele Drive, the video is a visual masterpiece of emotion, intrigue and storyelling! Gorgeously shot, symbolically layered, and deeply intentional. While I don’t know every hand that helped bring it to life, it’s clear the creative direction was just as impactful as the message itself.

Credit where credit is due.

From the very first moment, we’re watching Doechii vibe in her room, in her own energy. Alone, carefree, in motion. Then, out of nowhere, the window shatters. A peaceful moment interrupted. That break sets the tone for everything that follows. She walks out of her room and down the hallway….. then trips and ends up lifted into a photoshoot-like setting. Before you know it, we’re watching her interact with an eerie set of twin girls, a kitchen fire that the Patrick Cage (from One Of Them Days) lookalike refuses to put out, a barking dog, a glam team, and essentially a loop she can’t quite escape.

If you’ve ever experienced anxiety, you know these feelings, but the way it's shot and the artistry of it all…. Whew! Her singing and rapping, while expressing raw emotion, had me gripped to the screen. We can all relate to being pulled from moment to moment, constantly managing pressure, expectation, and fear without ever really landing anywhere. Sometimes it’s loud, sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it looks like panic, sometimes it just feels like you’re watching your own life from the outside.

The brilliance of this video is in how it captures both. The chaos and the stillness. The external storm and the internal one.

But what struck me most wasn’t just the visuals. It was the spiritual thread running underneath.

In her most recent Breakfast Club interview, Doechii said, “I hear from God better when I'm sober and I'm clear-minded. I only veer off of that when I distract myself with other things outside of me.” She also mentioned that she felt a strong urgency to release this project when she did, saying, “It was something in my spirit that was like, ‘You need to drop this project now. If you don’t drop this project now, you’re going to miss the mark.’”

Side-note: "Miss the mark," I re-learned recently, is actually the literal definition of SIN. To hear her say that gave me a new visual cue for something I’d always been taught but never quite saw that way. Anyways, sorry, got distracted.

Hearing her say that on a platform like The Breakfast Club felt like such a treat; even a confirmation for a nudging I’d recently accepted in my own journey about knowing when the time is NOW!

Her clear mind and her spiritual instinct was everything.

And that moment of her expressing her obedience? That right there… that’s Agreement.

Agreement isn’t performance. It’s not hustle. It’s not striving to be seen. It’s trusting what you hear and building something real from it, even if you have to start over.

Doechii has been evolving publicly for a while. She’s a Florida girl from Tampa, so you should already know I’ve been watching her since late 2019. Over the years, she’s grown through different visuals, different sounds, different versions of herself but always with the same through line and yet, NOW feels like the first time we’re seeing her from the inside out.

Clear. Whole. Centered, even in the chaos.

And I’d say that started with her last project release, one of my favorites to date: Alligator Bites Never Heal (aka"thorn in the flesh" 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, imo).

All this to say, I was inspired instantly and it’s been on my mind since so I decided to let the moment inspire this writing because it clicked for me. This is what it looks like when someone has come into agreement with their influence, their power, their authority. This is what I was witnessing.

This is what understanding your impact looks like. What the industry might call “using your platform to bring awareness around topics like mental health” but internally just looks like you finally discussing topics you may have never found language for yourself. And never found a solution to for your own sake.

Becoming the answer.

Knowing your why.

Divine agitation is that holy restlessness you can’t shake; less about fear, more about knowing you’re being called to more. It disrupts just enough to wake you up, push you forward, and make it impossible to settle for anything less than alignment. And once you feel it, you can’t unknow it.

This. This is the thing that I can’t unsee. This TRUTH (through my own eyes and lived experience) that we each have Kingdom-given influence and impact. That we ALL carry something truly unique and meaningful. That we’re all being called to pick that up and walk in it.

Helping people come into agreement with their influence isn’t about going viral. It’s about recognizing when the moment has arrived and you’re being called to respond, not perform. It’s about hearing God more clearly, trusting your timing, and building what’s yours to build. It’s about no longer living a divided life. No longer separating your creativity from your convictions or your visibility from your values.

That realization shifted everything for me. It gave me language for what I was sensing and helped me hold space for the kind of clarity I now protect.

If any part of this stirred something in you (whether it’s the fear, the fire, or the quiet hesitation) I want you to know you’re not alone. You don’t have to have it all figured out to be in your becoming.

You don’t need a big moment to be influential.

Sometimes, influence looks like starting fresh, saying no to what no longer fits or just deciding to finally trust your own voice.

You’re not behind. You’re becoming.

And your Agreement? That’s where it all begins.

In Perspective,

Jerveris