“My grandparents kept telling me boys to marry and stuff. “How many times do I have to say I’m Black?”Ĭoming out as gay wasn’t too much of a struggle, relatively.
“I went to a predominantly white school, so I had girls asking me, ‘How does your hair grow six inches overnight?’ Like, are you stupid?” she laughed, gesturing at her wig. “If I ever see someone from Santa Clarita popping off or like acting like they’re big and bad, I laugh because Santa Clarita is nothing, bro,” she said. She’s worked up an aesthetic of stylized hyper-femininity in her fashions and flow, paired with lyrics so over-the-top sexual that they make “WAP” read like “The Notebook.” Take “3 Musketeers,” one of her more quotable-in-a-family-newspaper singles, with its hook “Ayyy, tell lil shorty come here / I’m tryna blow her back out, walkin’ funny for the year.” It has over 20 million streams on Spotify.īorn to a Black African father and a white mother, she bounced between her parents’ and grandparents’ homes in super-white Santa Clarita and a rougher-hewn Valley where she felt constantly torn between cultures - or the lack of one. She can count well over 1 million TikTok followers and some of the biggest stars on the platform, including Charli D’Amelio and Addison Rae, as fans. With just five deliriously crass and catchy solo singles - all recorded no earlier than December - ppcocaine (pronounced “p-p-cocaine,” though she goes by “cocaine” in conversation) has already made a huge impact on the popular social-media platform that drives much of the Hot 100. Ppcocaine’s quarantine-era ascent through hip-hop has been so rapid that she had to get her genre’s now-prerequisite face tattoos practically all at once. “And then this side says ‘Trap,’ but instead of the ‘A’ it’s a triangle, and this says ‘Bunnie,’ and then I have a heart right here, and then I have a date right here, but the date is backward on purpose.” “I just redid this ‘X,’ and then I got this dollar sign next to my ear,” said the rapper, born Lilliane Diomi. rapper and ace provocateur of lesbian TikTok walked a Times reporter through the brand-new work across her ears and eyes. The ink was barely dry on ppcocaine’s half-dozen new face tattoos this week when she walked into a session at Westlake Studios in West Hollywood, in the room where Michael Jackson recorded “Thriller.” In a monochrome pink leotard, with matching dyed hair and sunglasses, the biracial 19-year-old L.A.