fakemink

One Liner: Very bad rap over EDM-ish beats
Wikipedia Genre: cloud rap, UK underground rap
Home: NYC

Poster Position: Top Quarter - Line 6
Day: Saturday at 7:30
Both Weekends.

BeatBox Stage.

Thoughts:  This guy kinda blows.  His Wikipedia makes me believe that he maybe is some sort of important figure in his area - "He has been credited with popularising the UK underground rap scene" - but it sounds like lazy rap to me.  Like, he's just kind of talking in a boring tone over a beat.

Vincenzo Nischal Camille Bhatia was born in Ilford, East London and moved to the town of Basildon in Essex when he was around 5. He is of Indian Punjabi and Algerian descent. He began making music in FL Studio when he was nine years old, on a pirated version of FL Studio from his father's hard drive.  he first used the name 9090gate, and then later flipped to fakemink and started piling on the singles.  His 2025 single "Easter Pink" went viral and Pitchfork described it as "Bloghouse meets cloud rap."  I have no clue what that means.  "This music is like if bootclap was snorthalf."  "If you love widgewhap, then this is like that in hufflekink."  Anyway, in July 2025, Drake brought him out as a special guest at a London show, and then he got a lot of attention from other stars.

Lots of singles, then 2023's London's Saviour, an absolute dump of singles with a few short EPs in the midst, and then the 2026 album Terrified.  His two biggest streamers aren't actually his songs, he just appears on a track by EsDeeKid and one by Buckshot.  The biggest of his own is a single called "Easter Pink" with 40.9 million streams.

At least it's short?  Like a hybrid between EDM and rap - maybe that is what bloghouse means, some ilk of EDM.  His top track from the new disc is "Night, Blooming Jasmine ." with 10.8 million streams.

I really can't take him seriously, blurting out that he's killing this shit, but in the voice of some sort of injured muppet that is stuck under a boulder.  "They try to cut my hair, I'm Sampson" says the Speak and Spell with a screwdriver impaled through the speaker.  I will not go see this guy do this in person.