Florida-born rapper and genre shifter Dokii made his explosive land debut on Friday night, offering one of the festival’s busiest sets, upstagening the evening headliners in the process.
Performing on the land end stage at 7pm, Dokiy drew a massive crowd to Polo Field at Golden Gate Park, comparable to last year’s scene-stealing performance of Queer Pop Phenom Chapel Lawn. Her 45-minute set was more than just a concert, but a theatre, movement, protest, celebration.
The performance, divided into six different acts, was grossly drawn from her 2024 EP Crocodile bites never heal In addition to breakout singles such as “Nissan Ultima”, “Spooky Coochee”, “Catfish” and “Anxiety”, the viral smash “Anxiety”, the anthems of gotye and kimbra-sampling soon become zz panic pop staples.
Supported by a dancer crew, Dokii has achieved high school-themed production that celebrates hip-hop, R&B and queer dance music lineages. Fans quickly noticed her mention of her now-escalated Met’s gala umbrella moment.
Throughout the set, Dokii remained commander and her presence was just as magnetic as her lyrics. Energy was electrical and contagious and impossible to ignore.
But she didn’t stop at the spectacle. Near the end of her set, the Grammy winner turned the moment into a political one, responding directly to the Palestinian flag waving into the crowd.
“Free Palestine! What’s talking about f-everything?” she cried after playing “Boombap.” She continued with a call for peace, saying, “More peace, now.”
It was a sharp, imaginary statement, landed by force.
This was not the first time Dokiy has expressed support for Palestine. Last week she made a similar declaration at the Osciaga Festival in Montreal, further cementing her attitude as one of the few mainstream artists who refuse to remain silent.
Queer fans were particularly drawn to the Dokii’s intense blend of personality, theatricality and vulnerability. All of these were fully on display on Friday. Her outlying land debut felt like a cultural milestone, not just a musical milestone.
Before the festival, she performed two sold-out Bay Area shows in the San Francisco Independent and the new parish in Oakland last November. But she’s not long. Pre-sale tickets for the upcoming headline show, held at the Bilgraham Civic Auditorium on November 7th, fell on Friday morning.
Dokii may have been charged under the headliner, but by the end of the night she was the name of everyone’s lips.
Source: Gayety – gayety.com
