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  Hear Mykki Blanco Rap in Latin on Creepy Sinden Production 'The Initiation'

  May 15, 2013 – "Hell is chilly, motherfucker." So sayeth Mykki Blanco before a disturbingly bleak Sinden beat kicks off and our hostess leaves English behind for a serious of whisper-growled Latin incantations on "The Initiation." Carpe noctem ... carpe diem, Deo confidimus. "Seize the night ... …
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  Watch Mykki Blanco's Noir-Nodding 'Feeling Special' Video

  April 18, 2013 – Mykki Blanco's breakout 2012 mixtape was titled Cosmic Angel: Illuminati Prince/ss. Give or take a few rips in the space-time continuum, why couldn't that dual honorific be applied to Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall? …
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  Hear Mykki Blanco Get Bleakly 'Bugged Out!!!!' With Supreme Cuts

  April 5, 2013 – Mykki Blanco was supposed to deliver her new EP, Betty Rubble: The Initiation, in March but instead left us with a single rugged heater to fight over, "Feeling Special." We haven't been updated on when that set is actually going to drop, but we can certainly settle on a brand new track — produced by Supreme Cuts, no less. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Young Jeezy Goes Hyphy, Leaves the Trap to Everybody Else

  April 5, 2013 – 1. Mykki Blanco Live @ the Metro Gallery, Baltimore, MD 3/30: At this point, the only reason why Mykki Blanco isn't getting all-over-the-Internet love for picking up where Lil Wayne left off in 2008 or so is because of, well, you know why. That's a shame. Witnessing Mykki live at the Metro Gallery in Baltimore last Saturday was like a flash-forward to hip-hop's wonderfully freaked-out, outsider-inviting afterfuture. …
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  Mykki Blanco Is 'Feeling Special' on Rugged New Heater

  February 21, 2013 – Mykki Blanco is feeling fierce. The vogue-rap fire-starter went hard and heavy in last month's appropriately titled "Kingpinning" video, and she's back with another rugged heater. "Feeling Special" hails from the forthcoming Betty Rubble: The Initiation EP, due some time in March, and features production from San Francisco beat-damager Matrixxman. …
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  See Mykki Blanco Shape-Shift With Swagger in 'Kingpinning' Video

  January 25, 2013 – "Kingpinning" is a positively ferocious track from New York's Mykki Blanco, a "fast-rapping MC who reaches the wigged-out heights of Lil Wayne at his mid-2000s creative peak" while actually wearing a wig, as Brandon Soderberg wrote in our Breaking Out profile on the rising artist. …
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  Mykki Blanco: New York Rapper Echoes Tricky, Riot Grrrl, and Master P

  January 16, 2013 – Who: Mykki Blanco, real name Michael Quattelbaum, is a fast-rapping MC who reaches the wigged-out heights of Lil Wayne at his mid-2000s creative peak (the manic "Riot"), taps into the chant-rap fury of Atlanta clubs ("Virginia Beach") and does it wearing a wig and women's clothing. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Mystikal, Possessed by the Ghost of James Brown on 'Hit Me'

  December 7, 2012 – On Sunday, Das Racist officially broke up, and that's a bummer. The big Das Racist joke, it turns out, was that there was no joke. That rather than devolve into novelty MCs and pump out a bunch more “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”-type songs and become what my friend Sean once called “the hipster LMFAO,” they took their shit very, very seriously. That was funnier than any of their punch lines. They went for it. …
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  Mykki Blanco's Mutant Radio Rap Kills 'Queer Rap' Dead

  November 20, 2012 – Can we Wiki together a timeline that breaks down just how much hip-hop culture is derived from, or at the very least, was heavily influenced by gay culture? How Tupac Shakur grew up in house music-obsessed Baltimore (hometown of queer-cinema godfather John Waters and transgender DJ/vocalist Miss Tony), attended a performing arts high school, sported the most perfectly plucked eyebrows on a man ever, and rocked a banjee realness style? …
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  New York's Gobby Lobs One Off the Deep End

  July 12, 2012 – One benefit of Ricardo Villalobos refusing to set foot in the United States for so many years is that it allowed plenty of time for Stateside producers to form their own impressions of his squirrelly, spiraling groove fantasias (and the kinds of dropped-jaw reaction they inspire) without ever actually catching the minimal maestro in person. …
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