21.45 Curfew
This is a separate event and our G-A-Y Club night will be starting at 22.00 when CupcakKe has finished.
Bold and outspoken Chicago rapper CupcakKe has achieved viral success
and critical acclaim with her brazen, unapologetically explicit songs
and videos that channeled the likes of Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, and Gangsta
Boo.
Her work explores sexuality in graphic detail, and while many of her
songs are humorous and playful, she has more serious, introspective
material that deals with sexual abuse (“Pedophile”), racial issues
(“Picking Cotton”), and LGBTQ empowerment (“Crayons”). She debuted in 2016
with a pair of raunchy EPs and a full-length, Audacious, following with the
critically acclaimed Queen Elizabitch (2017) and Ephorize (2018).
Elizabeth Eden Harris was born in Chicago in 1997. At the age of 14,
she began writing religious-themed poetry, performing in local churches.
She started turning her poems into raps and uploading them to
YouTube, receiving thousands of views. In late 2015, inspired by Khia’s hit
“My Neck, My Back,” she decided to write sexually explicit material. The
videos “Vagina” and “Deepthroat” appeared and quickly spread on the
Internet like wildfire. Both songs appeared on her debut mixtape, Cum Cake,
in February
- S.T.D (Shelters to Deltas), named for Harris’ years spent in
homeless shelters, followed in June, and the studio album Audacious arrived
in October. The releases received praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, MTV
News, and numerous hip-hop websites.
Harris guested on Charli XCX’s song “Lipgloss,” which appeared on her
March 2017 mixtape, Number 1 Angel. CupcakKe’s second studio album,
Queen Elizabitch, appeared soon after, and the rapper toured North America
twice during the year, in addition to releasing two subsequent singles,
“Exit” and “Cartoons.” Both songs appeared on her third studio album,
Ephorize, which dropped near the beginning of 2018. The set peaked at
number two on the Heatseekers chart, while landing in the Top 20 of the
Billboard Independent Albums chart. Months later, she issued her fourth
full-length, Eden, featuring the singles “Quiz” and “Blackjack.” CupcakKe
closed her decade with a flood of singles in 2019, including the
size-obsessed viral hit, “Squidward Nose.” The following year, she reached
a career high with the single “Discounts,” which topped streaming charts
and rose into the Top Ten of the Billboard Digital Songs chart. ~ Paul
Simpson, Rovi