New Video: Kitty Pryde - "Okay Cupid" (Prod. by Beautiful Lou)

OK, where do we start with this one? Kitty Pryde is a white girl from Daytona Beach, Florida. She’s a rapper; actually, Vice just called her “our new favorite Tumblr-wave rapper.” Luke O’Neil writes that “the handful of songs she’s put up on her BandCamp page in the last year…are the funnest, and funniest, rap tracks I’ve heard in recent memory.”

Her flow is soft, cozy, and fuzzy — um, in a good way — though she bumps Lil Ugly Mane and calls Danny Brown her idol. In fact, she namechecks the barky Detroit spitter in the video for “Okay Cupid,” released today, her collaboration with Beautiful Lou. Beautiful Lou, you should know, produced some of the strongest tracks on A$AP Rocky’s debut mixtape after being swooped up alongside Clams Casino for his work with Lil B. On “Okay Cupid,” his surreal, thumping, syruped-out beat is the perfect cushy backdrop for Kitty’s giggly-ass lyrics. The song fuckin’ works.

She might be a bit too meme-y for some of y’all, but dat #based music, dat ambient-nonsense-Riff Raff-Internet shit, it’s hot. I dunno. I was born in the ’90s too, so…

Kitty Pryde just signed with Main Attrakionz’s managers, and until she disappears, or gets sued by Marvel, or rises from Kreayshawn‘s ashes, you might wanna check it out. Download “Okay Cupid” right here, peep the video below, and more shit on her BandCamp.

Sidebar — her biggest influence?

It sounds really lame, but I’d say Earl Sweatshirt. I haven’t liked Odd Future’s music in a while, but I just think Earl’s flow is really cool. And, the band Why?, too. They have a lot of sounds. They’re pretty eclectic. But, whenever they do rap stuff I’ve always liked it.

via MISHKA