Who is cakes da killa

A lot of those interactions are not annoying to me because I have those conversations with my uncles," he said. There are a lot of times when I am forced to learn a new thing.

People should stop being so tense. I have a mom who did not want to throw me out of the house because I was gay. Growing up, Cakes said he idolized entertainers who were glamorous and ostentatious, and he listed Missy Elliot, Ludacris, Diana Ross and Cher among his inspirations. Currently, he said he dreams of collaborating with performers including Nicki Minaj, Jadakiss, Sza and Rihanna.

Cakes recently wrapped up a tour with Mykki Blanco, a queer rapper who is also considered a pioneer in the hip-hop space, and both artists were exposed to fans who live in parts of the U. You said wanted to give up rap after [second mixtape] Eulogy in What made you change your mind? The cheques! I think I was being melodramatic when I said that. What kind of things did you feel unprepared for?

The conversations about me personally. It went from just being my own thing to something I shared with the world. My talent outshines that discussion. And in black gay culture, in the US, we have our own kind of language that may not be understood by the mainstream.

The no-holds-bar rapper and producer weave a tight tapestry of musical references that only hundreds of hours spent sweating to music by queer elders could produce. Muvaland Vol. He repeats the statement again and again, in case you misheard it the first time.

By his own admission, Cakes da Killa came up in the so-called queer hip-hop boom of the early s, counting the likes of Zebra Katz , Mykki Blanco , and Le1f among his peers.

In retrospect, the fervor around this purported scene seems misplaced—they were all very different artists with different destinies.