Kitty

When: Wed., Jan. 24, 8 p.m. 2018

It’s 2018 — long gone are the days of sending a CD to a record label in a manila envelope. For Florida rapper Kitty, it started with a poem about an ex-boyfriend posted on Tumblr in 2010 (Kitty was still in high school at the time). Soon after, Kitty dropped The Lizzie McGuire Experience, a compilation of songs ripped from her blog made available exclusively on Bandcamp. It wasn’t until her single, “Okay Cupid” that she reached viral status (even landing herself on a Rolling Stone best-of list). Since then, she’s teamed up with rapper Riff Raff and covered an unlikely Andrew Bird song that furthered her viral reach

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