CupcakKe in Concert
Chicago artist CupcakKe divulges everything and apologizes for nothing with her brash and biting trap-inspired rap. Her heavy, hard-edged, sometimes humorous music is a clear product of her background. Born Elizabeth Eden Harris in 1997, she grew up in the south side of Chicago alongside fellow future rappers Chief Keef and Lil Reese—but she started down quite a different path. As a young girl, Harris wrote and performed her own religious poetry at her local church. Eventually, on the advice of a parishioner, she began to turn those poems into raps. Soon enough, with plenty of Lil Kim inspiration, her poetic wordplay quickly turned explicit.
With a tiny chunk of cash from her mom, she booked a studio to record her first demo, and CupcakKe was born. She began to upload her songs to YouTube and in late 2015, she started to see her views skyrocket. Within a day, she was featured on the major hip-hop site WorldStarHipHop. She released two more singled that would eventually be featured on her 2016 debut mixtape. The collection of songs proved CupcakKe's versatility beyond a shock rapper, with brutal and candid songs like "Pedophile" and "Life." Within a few months, she'd release her second mixtape, ‘S.T.D (Shelters to Deltas),' and by October 2016, she released her debut studio album, ‘Audacious,' including dance-fueled LGBT anthem "Lgbt."
Her output would continue to prove prolific. By early 2017, she was featured on English pop star Charli XCX's "Lipgloss," and released her sophomore album, ‘Queen Elizabitch.' At this time, most of her success was found online, but she'd soon hit the road for The Marilyn Monhoe Tour, bringing her vivacious personality to the stage. The following year, she was already on her third album, ‘Ephorize,' and by the end of 2018 she would join Iggy Azalea on the Bad Girls Tour.