It’s a sign of the times that a rapper can be Black, openly queer and free from the genre’s deep-seated hypermasculinity, and not just be named Lil Nas X. Most of the artists currently expanding the ...

For well over a decade, the New Jersey rapper Cakes Da Killa has been making a sharp, expressive, outwardly queer form of club-rap. In the past few years, he's been on a serious run, tapping into a ...

The New York rapper’s third studio album is an unbothered mission statement that displays his gifts as a bar-for-bar rapper and thrilling genre collagist. Black Sheep, Cakes’ third studio album, ...

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. 2 isn’t just a house ...