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GLITTER RAP: MICKEY AVALON’S GLAMOROUS SLEAZE

wordsby dustin koop illustrationby ben tour

With the ugly/pretty sex appeal of an early Mick Jagger and the crude wit of Lenny Bruce, Mickey Avalon has developed a new genre of rap that deserves a place between 80s glam rock and Slick Rick’s pimpster storytelling.On his self titled album, Mickey boasts about his life as a former junkie and prostitute, rapping about the underbelly of Hollywood and all its sleaze. Back in 2005, Mickey “The Kosher Salami” released his album independently, wrapping the discs in pages from the L.A. Xpress newspaper, featuring ads from escorts, rub-n’-tug masseuses and grimy plastic surgery venues. Two years later Mickey became the first artist to be signed to Myspace Records, which led to an almost-immediate deal with Interscope to re-release his album to the masses…