Sharp trash-talking lyricist, style icon on the rise – Mykki Blanco poppped onto everyone’s radar o nly few months back, this intriguing crossdressing character that would instantly seduce most, and for the others, inevitably become a case study in some scholarly debate on gender issues in rap. Getting ready for the release, tomorrow, of debut mixtape Cosmic Angel: The Illuminati Prince/ss, Blanco couldn’t resist but drop a track a couple of days ahead. On Wednesday, Kingpinning, with its organic beats and eerie signature stripped-down sound, came to introduce a first full-length for which the rapper surrounded himself with some of the country’s most prominent DJs/producers, such as Gatekeeper, Flosstradamus, or Brenmar (the man behind ‘Wavvy’). Mykki Blanco will be performing tonight (11.9) at Cameo Gallery, for this year’s Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival before kicking off a first US tour on November 12th at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, opening for Death Grips.
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