While extremely interested in Mykki Blanco, I also have my critiques. I find it problematic that xe explains xir skills at rapping as a means to respect from the cis, straight world. Queer people shouldn’t need a means. I’ve never had to have a cis, straight person perform for me to earn my respect, and I think we, as queer people, need to demand respect for no other reason than that we are fellow living beings sharing this earth. Also, I think xe contradicts xirself when xe says that “time’s have changed” in reference to queer acceptance before explaining the disrespect xe experiences as a transgender person.

Critiquing aside, Mykki Blanco excites the shit out of me. It’s time one of the most conservative genres of music got some more diversity and entered a realm it very few times has entered before and never entered to produce a large scale success; I think Blanco is the rapper that can change this. Xir flow is blade-sharp, xir raps are clever and xe commits to xir melodramatic execution to the point that it is no longer cheesy, but visceral, theatrical and colossal. “I’m a contemporary artist who’s using rap as my medium,” xe explains. I anxiously await xir masterpiece.