Cakes da Killa

Cakes da Killa: Performer, songwriter, innovator. New Jersey-born, but he’s reigned in New York through a decade-plus independent career tearing up stages worldwide with a unique blend of rap, house, and electronic music. Cakes is a queer pioneer who’s maintained through pigeonholing and an ever-changing music landscape. Nevertheless, his critical and communal acclaim precede him: he’s played Glastonbury and Sonar, and has collaborations with Honey Dijon to Kaytranada to TOKiMONSTA to Kevin Saunderson. But upon asking, Cakes declines to submit to convention via self-definition; he knows himself, and the rest is up to the listener.