Name: CupcakKe
Start: 2025-11-24T19:00:00.000Z
Location: Queen Margaret Union

Bold and outspoken Chicago rapper CupcakKe has achieved viral success and&nbsp;critical acclaim with her brazen, unapologetically explicit songs and&nbsp;videos that channeled the likes of Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, and Gangsta Boo.&nbsp;Her work explores sexuality in graphic detail, and while many of her songs&nbsp;are humorous and playful, she has more serious, introspective material that&nbsp;deals with sexual abuse ("Pedophile"), racial issues ("Picking Cotton"),&nbsp;and LGBTQ empowerment ("Crayons"). She debuted in 2016 with a pair of&nbsp;raunchy EPs and a full-length, Audacious, following with the critically&nbsp;acclaimed Queen Elizabitch (2017) and Ephorize (2018). Elizabeth Eden Harris was born in Chicago in 1997. At the age of 14, she&nbsp;began writing religious-themed poetry, performing in local churches. She&nbsp;started turning her poems into raps and uploading them to YouTube,&nbsp;receiving thousands of views. In late 2015, inspired by Khia's hit "My&nbsp;Neck, My Back," she decided to write sexually explicit material. The videos&nbsp;"Vagina" and "Deepthroat" appeared and quickly spread on the Internet like&nbsp;wildfire. Both songs appeared on her debut mixtape, Cum Cake, in February&nbsp;2016. S.T.D (Shelters to Deltas), named for Harris' years spent in homeless&nbsp;shelters, followed in June, and the studio album Audacious arrived in&nbsp;October. The releases received praise from Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, MTV&nbsp;News, and numerous hip-hop websites. Harris guested on Charli XCX's song "Lipgloss," which appeared on her March&nbsp;2017 mixtape, Number 1 Angel. CupcakKe's second studio album, Queen&nbsp;Elizabitch, appeared soon after, and the rapper toured North America twice&nbsp;during the year, in addition to releasing two subsequent singles, "Exit"&nbsp;and "Cartoons." Both songs appeared on her third studio album, Ephorize,&nbsp;which dropped near the beginning of 2018. The set peaked at number two on&nbsp;the Heatseekers chart, while landing in the Top 20 of the Billboard&nbsp;Independent Albums chart. Months later, she issued her fourth full-length,&nbsp;Eden, featuring the singles "Quiz" and "Blackjack." CupcakKe closed her&nbsp;decade with a flood of singles in 2019, including the size-obsessed viral&nbsp;hit, "Squidward Nose." The following year, she reached a career high with&nbsp;the single "Discounts," which topped streaming charts and rose into the Top&nbsp;Ten of the Billboard Digital Songs chart. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi

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