In the intent, intense black-and-white video for "Reality Pt 4," the young Chicago rapper CupcakKe proves herself to be so much larger than her shock-and-awe sex-rapper persona. While her most recent project, Queen Elizabitch, is filled with the same type of "oh-my-goodness," deliriously fun filth CupcakKe sells with such effortless swagger, it also showcases her clear-minded-but-aggressive response to current politics and her own troubled upbringing. "Reality Pt 4," the album's à capella closing track, is of the latter variety, finding CupcakKe dropping reflective bars about her past and the present: "My father don't want me like we don't want Donald Trump/ I was tryna keep it cool for my mammy/ Them long lines standing in that food pantry." At times, CupcakKe gets uncomfortably dark, delivering these lyrics to you unflinchingly as she uses up the whole frame: "Once I turned 12 it was all hell/ Roaming the streets looking for D when I couldn't even spell/ Fighting demons with a poker face like everything swell." The rap is dense, but the visual is stark, and the combination will leave you as silent as the instrumental. Watch below.
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Queen Elizabitch is out now.
