Transvestite Rapper Mykki Blanco's New Video Invites Us to the Dark Side

Despite being a truly modern entity, there’s something very old school punk rock about up-and-coming transvestite rapper Mykki Blanco. Maybe it’s the way she evokes the gritty spirit of 1970s New York, her jerky Iggy Pop-like movements or the way she openly embraces what others might write off as debauched and ugly. (Remember the video we posted a couple months back in which a naked Blanco lies covered only by octopus tentacles?) No matter what you put it to, Mykki Blanco wouldn’t seem far out of place on a bill with The Stooges or Johnny Thunders.

Here’s her newest video release for “My Head Is a Stone.” Like it or not, I think we can all agree that Mykki Blanco is doing something very very different.

Check out her EP Mykki Blanco and the Mutant Angels here, here or, if you like vinyl, here.