One Liner: Local female rapper without many streams but some good flow.
Poster Position: 5 (23)
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday.
Thoughts: Huh. Most of her tracks feature male rappers, and so this whole time I thought she was a dude rapper, until I starting reading about her. Real name is Te'aunna Moore, and she was actually born and raised in Austin. She started writing rhymes in 7th grade. She grew up on East 10th, so maybe she went to Zavala Elementary and Martin Junior High like I did. That would be sort of cool, even though it would be just about the only thing I have in common with a black, queer, woman artist.
The Chronicle explains part of her backstory like this: "A crucial part of Blakchyl's story began in October 2007 when she joined the Cipher ATX, a nonprofit organization co-founded by her first mentor, Chris "Gator" Ockletree, and social worker Shannon Sandrea. The Cipher aimed to bring in high schoolers from underprivileged Austin areas under a unifying umbrella of hip-hop. Moore met Gator – an Eastside rapper from the local group Public Offenders – in a beatmaking class he instructed during her freshman year. Then determined to become a DJ/producer, Moore says he convinced her to take rap more seriously." AT the time, she was nicknamed T-Fly.
A couple albums, a couple EPs, although the most recent album is with G.E.N.I.U.S., Nez tha Villian, and some other folks. So hard to know what is what when things are going down (although after listening a few more times, I think it is pretty obvious when the female voice is happening). Pretty sure she samples Andre 3000 in "Street Lightz." Part of the beat to "Give Myself" sounds like part of a beat to an Outkast song. "Rhythm N Blues" interpolates some Lauryn Hill.
Streaming numbers are non-existent. Only one song in her Spotify has listed playcounts - "DDD" with 3,444.
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