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WATCH: Drag Rapper Mykki Blanco Is Gettin’ “Wavvy”

Queer hip-hop performer Michael David Quattlebaum Jr. has a bit of a personality disorder: The New York-based artist-poet started out dropping beats as the homo-thug rapper No Fear, but has developed a new drag persona, Mykki Blanco, whose infectious new track, “Wavvy” has been burning up the Internets.

Though he’s been touted as part of a rising wave of gay rappers, Quattlebaum, 25, tells the New York Times he prefers to think of Blanco as “a mixture of riot grrrl and ghetto fabulousness.”

Citing influences from Lauryn Hill and Kathleen Hanna to Jean Cocteau and Anaïs Nin, he says he’s using hip-hop as a performance medium. Doing drag, he says, makes him feel pretty. “And when you start to feel pretty: oh, boy, look out.”

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By: Dan Avery
On: Aug 25, 2012
Tagged: Drag Queens, Michael David Quattlebaum, Michael David Quattlebaum Mykki Blanco, Music, Mykki Blanco, Mykki Blanco Music, Mykki Blanco Wavvy, rap, rap music, Video, watch

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No. 1 · Peter
That was some straight up psychopathic, mentally-ill styled evil. Too much hate for me.

Aug 25, 2012 at 7:31 am · @Reply ·
No. 2 · PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
this track is the shit! much better than than “join my militia.” it’s saying that the gaga era is over — finally, bitches, we can do it on our own terms now*… and all you avant-garde-lite muthafuckas stand down.

yes sir, finally, in 2012 explicitly homo music which is CREDIBLE has come of age …. and that fire wasn’t started where you’d expect it: inside the citadel of “liberal” indie/alternative… but from right in the heart of the “enemy camp” itself of homophobia and hypermasculinism where queer black boys and girls and allies are lighting petrol bombs and destroying walls and building new weird futuristic skylines where i want to live.

(have to say, he’s quite thug-cute in his civvies in a deranged oddball kind of way…and endearingly ugly as fuck as a woman. lol)

* e.g. zebra katz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoI6zvbUitk (aural crack!)

Aug 25, 2012 at 9:53 am · @Reply ·
No. 3 · NormdePlume
What a pantload of crap

Aug 25, 2012 at 1:21 pm · @Reply ·
No. 4 · PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
@NormdePlume: yeah, he ain’t no phil collins…sorry ’bout that.

Aug 25, 2012 at 1:46 pm · @Reply ·
No. 5 · Kev C
ghetto hillbillies on bath salts.

Aug 25, 2012 at 1:53 pm · @Reply ·
No. 6 · Peter
Watched it second time. Still don’t like the lyrics, but the costumes, scenery and cinematography is pretty good.

Aug 25, 2012 at 3:51 pm · @Reply ·
No. 7 · Gotjee
I don’t understand how Queerty STILL hasn’t done an article on Le1f! Are you people slow? Check out his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc (For that matter check his entire CD, it’s the SHIT)

Aug 25, 2012 at 8:30 pm · @Reply ·
No. 8 · jeff4justice
Love it. Reminds me of Die Antwood.

Aug 26, 2012 at 11:14 am · @Reply ·