Mykki Blanco is a serious game changer. ‘Gay Dog Food’ is about to smash your earholes.

If you aren’t familiar with the rapper/performer/electronic hybrid hot mess, you had better get there quick. Blanco was introduced to me over a bottle of rosé by a hip hop enthusiast at 3am. Four hours and two more bottles later, I was converted to the Gospel of Mykki. This was the track I listened to that night;

You cant pin this genre down. Queer hip-hop, trap-rap, acid punk – holy crap I cant even make this shit up. The queen of collaboration – Blanco has worked with every one from Le1f to Flosstradamus to Brenmar – the spectrum of sound and styles is as ambiguous as his gender performance.

As well as being a magical amalgamation of most popular genres of the iPhone 6 generation – Blanco is capturing urban music cultures at a crossroads. There are no boundaries. There are no limits. Music, sexuality, performance and conventions are being broken apart. Blanco is brave, shameless, unafraid, and executed without giving a single fuck. As stated by the artist;

“…you can choose to call me a gay rapper, you can choose to not even call me a rapper if you want to, it doesn’t matter, i’m a punk, a creative punk and i’m going to continue to create and entertain without boundaries. Gay Dog Food is just the start of where I hope to go creatively and commercially… I don’t worry about the labelling of my music anymore because for me it is about executing exciting content…” 

Coming a long way from the performance art piece from which Blanco was birthed  – spurred by influences such as Lauryn Hill, Rhianna, Marilyn Manson and drag queen Vaginal Davis – Blanco is now ready to take his performance to the next level.

Gay Dog Food is that step. Available October 28th via UNO NYC – it’s set to be a musical mindfuck with no boundaries. Including a spoken word single featuring Kathleen Hanna (Le Tigre) and a track called “Solange in the Elevator” featuring Katie Got Bandz.

It’s also got this little tasty morsel – available for free download today “Moshin in the Front”, which features Cities Aviv and was produced by Naked.

As Blanco said himself – ‘this moment now is really the beginning’. Stay tuned from more mind/genre/gender bending shit because this is about to go off.

Get mo Mykki right hurrrrrrr.

@Izzy_Combs

[via Pitchfork]