Cupcakke

The Fader described it as "the type of nasty rap that made her a viral sensation, alongside all-out pop bangers like '33rd' and the confessional a cappella freestyle 'Reality, Pt. 4'."

Stereogum also noted that the album "sees CupcakKe engaging with the current political climate and radio trends in a way that could help her cross over to a more mainstream audience".

Elizabeth Eden Harris (born May 31, 1997), known professionally as Cupcakke (often stylized as cupcakKe; pronounced ), is an American rapper and singer from Chicago, Illinois.

She is known for her hypersexualized, brazen, and often comical persona and music.

Elizabeth Eden Harris was born on May 31, 1997, in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised on King Drive, near Parkway Gardens.

Harris was raised by a single mother and spent nearly four years in Chicago's homeless shelters starting at age seven.

In the lyrics of her song "Ace Hardware", Harris recounts her experiences struggling with depression and being raped by her father, who is a pastor.

She has referred to her father as a "deadbeat", "con artist", and "child molester."

She attended Dulles Elementary School with other established Chicago rappers such as Lil Reese and Chief Keef.

She got an early start into music and poetry at the age of ten by her involvement in her local church.

It was also there that she got her start in performing, where she would perform for her local pastors by reciting poetry about her Christianity and faith.

When she was 13, she met a fellow churchgoer who encouraged her to turn the poetry into rap music, and she became infatuated with the art form.

She cites 50 Cent, Lil' Kim, and Da Brat as early influences to her musical style.

According to Cupcakke, she wrote the song because she was inspired by Khia's dirty rap song "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" from 2002.

One month later, Harris released "Deepthroat" on her own channel.

Within weeks, the two videos went viral on YouTube, Worldstar, and Facebook.

Cupcakke began her career as a rapper in 2012 by releasing material online.

Harris released her first music video, "Gold Digger" onto her official YouTube channel in August 2012.

She was only 15 at the time of its release—the original video has since been deleted.

Over the next few years, she continued to release original music, as well as freestyles using beats from other artists through her YouTube channel, where she has amassed over 919,000 subscribers.

She drew attention in 2015 when she released two music videos, "Vagina" and "Deepthroat", on YouTube that went viral; the songs were later included on her debut mixtape, Cum Cake (2016), which was included on Rolling Stone's list of the Best Rap Albums of 2016 at number 23.

In October 2015, the official music video for her song "Vagina" was released on YouTube via YMCFilmz.

A second mixtape, S.T.D (Shelters to Deltas), released in 2016, preceded her studio albums: Audacious (2016), Queen Elizabitch (2017), Ephorize (2018), and Eden (2018).

The songs later became singles for Harris' debut mixtape, Cum Cake, which was released in February 2016.

Its release was also supported by further singles such as "Juicy Coochie", "Tit for Tat", and "Pedophile".

A writer for Pitchfork, which included it on "9 Rap Mixtapes You Might Have Missed This Year", called the mixtape a "well rounded introduction to a skilled writer" and said it used songs "about love, loss, and hardship with its more explicit tracks to create a full profile of the up-and-coming Chicago rapper".

"Pedophile" was also specifically noted for its "blunt commentary" on sexual assault.

In June 2016, Harris released her second mixtape, S.T.D (Shelters to Deltas).

It was preceded by the single "Best Dick Sucker".

Other tracks, such as "Doggy Style" and "Motherlands", were also later released as singles.

The mixtape was listed among Rolling Stone "Best Rap Albums of 2016 So Far".

In October 2016, Harris released her debut studio album, Audacious.

The album was preceded by the single "Picking Cotton", which was described by MTV News as "a protest song about racist cops".

Other tracks on the album such as "Spider-Man Dick" and "LGBT" were accompanied by music videos.

In an interview Harris stated that she made the song "LGBT" "...strictly for the gay community to know that they are loved and don't need to feel judged."

In February 2017, Harris released "Cumshot", which served as the lead single to her second studio album.

On March 7, English singer-songwriter Charli XCX premiered her song "Lipgloss", which featured Harris.

The song was later included on XCX's mixtape, Number 1 Angel, which was released on March 10.

Her second studio album, titled Queen Elizabitch, was released on March 31, 2017.

Aside from a brief retirement at the end of 2019, she has been steadily releasing standalone singles, such as "Squidward Nose" (2019), "Discounts" (2020), "Mosh Pit" (2021), and "H2hoe" (2022).