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buttercup — livetweet of danny brown and kitty show at rock & roll hotel in DC



livetweet of danny brown and kitty show at rock & roll hotel in DC

by buttercup


kitty is a rapper, artist, and writer from daytona beach, florida

almost exactly one year ago i became aware of kitty's youtube channel and video 'okay cupid' which 'kickstarted' her career as a performer




in that time we've encountered each other and/or our 'paths have crossed' with varying frequency and under extreme, coincidence-resembling circumstances


[kitty with author tao lin and the zax's rion harmon]


when hanging out in brooklyn shortly after kitty moved to NYC i was at an L train stop eating pizza with lk shaw and mike bushnell when kitty walked down the stairs and i recognized her, mouth-full, and said her name

she seemed surprised/afraid, but we had interacted some via tumblr(?) and i assured her it was 'me, buttercup', and not a deranged fan. we talked for a minute and she invited me to her show with the bruiser brigade in brooklyn at the paper box

it turned out to be the night she announced she had joined danny brown's hip hop collective. i livetweeted about it, expressing consistent feelings of nervousness and unease


[highlights from 9/19 danny brown, flatbush zombies, kitty show
 livetweet at the paper box in brooklyn by buttercup]


kitty and i interacted minimally at the show but a few weeks later i solicited her for an interview via the i am alt lit weekly interview show ::CONFIDENTIAL:: which is no longer available due to having been subject to a 'spreecast black-out' late last year

however kitty 'slyly'/'savvily' recorded her side of the interview in two videos, which can be viewed here and here


[facebook photo of kitty at her birthday party in NYC
with my friend and old roommate igor 'igs' fedorovskiy,
feel 'baffled' that/have no idea how he got booked to DJ this party,
'small world', etc.]


recently there was a medium-to-significant scandal surrounding an incident that occured while danny and kitty were on tour that kitty wrote about for vice's music division, noisey

last week, after reading her article i became curious if she and danny had any shows near me and checked to see their tour dates. i saw they were performing near my home in hyattsville, maryland in two days


[gmail chat between kitty and i]

the 'want to type 'thank you' a lot of time' typo seems like 'an omen' in retrospect, as you can see in my space-themed livetweet of the event, found below:



kitty and i discussed our interests in writing more about 'the crazy shit that happens in the hip-hop world'. i'm looking forward to future writing by her and encourage people interested in these themes to read my previous article 'what i shit on when shitting on hip-hop'

thanks to kitty, danny, kitty's brother (DJ sirvyx), kitty's mom, skywlkr, and nano for a sweet-ass night



EDIT: kitty performed this song at the show and i really enjoyed it





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