Cakes da killa

I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also…

— Cakes da killa

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility.

— Cakes da killa

I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is…

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I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it…

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Coming into this, making music, I knew that was something that was going to be held over my head. Okay we get…

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I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that…

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I'm a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It's not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to…

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I didn't choose to be a rapper; it's just my talent.

— Cakes da killa

It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid…

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I think each track tells a different story about what I'm going through. But overall it's just me being young, my love…

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I think it's very important that LGBT narratives are spoken from LGBT perspectives. I think that what I do is important as…

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Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole…

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Not to sound egotistic, but I've gotten kind of good at it. It's something that came naturally to me, but my rapping…

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Sometimes I start with the beat. Sometimes I can write something down and it takes me a while to figure out how…

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There are two singles I did with Noah Breakfast, ["Talkin Greezy" and "New Phone (Who Dis),"] which was a cool experience. So…

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I've been working with Peaches for a while as far as doing shows, maybe for the past two years. Everyone else seems…

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My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted…

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Now I'm in the business and I do have to have these awkward conversations about how I look, how I talk. But…

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In the industry there's this whole mentality of working with someone who can open the door for you, but my whole thing…

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I am a rapper. The reason why I was against the whole rapper title is because I know so many people who…

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I want to be respected as a writer and, like I said, I was really sick of people saying I was a…

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I don't think it's completely better. I still have to do annoying things sometimes and explain things that I don't feel I…

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In this day and age of social media, where everything is so centred around how many Instagram and Twitter followers you have,…

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With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize…

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I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything…

— Cakes da killa