Austin rapper Mama Duke kicks down the door for LGBTQ hip-hop artists
Austin 360 As far as album titles that encapsulate the essence of an artist, Mama Duke’s “Ballsy” is as good as it gets. The rapper, an out-and-proud lesbian, doesn’t pull punches on her full-length debut, an 11-song, 27-minute blitzkrieg of hard-hitting bars tempered by a Drake-ish knack for a sing-song hook. On lead track “Ghost,” she skewers the rappers who ignored her heat on the come-up. She mocks her haters, stacks her paper and flaunts her sexual prowess on debut single “Mad.” By the time she warns you to step off her imaginary male appendage in the penultimate track...
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