Elizabeth Eden Harris, known professionally by her stage name CupcakKe, is an American hip hop recording artist from Chicago, born on May 31, 1997.
She is best known for her crassly sexual songs, which often take on a humorous quality due to how explicit and absurd the imagery in her lyrics is. However, she's just as prompt to rap about homelessness, gun violence or social rights (she's made several famous pro-LGBTQ songs, as well as one of very few prominent rap songs
in support of the autistic community), demonstrating remarkable lyrical dexterity and rap skills regardless of the subject matter. Even so, she embraces her hyper-sexual reputation, having nicknamed her fans "the slurpers".
Raised by a single mother, CupcakKe spent nearly four years in Chicago’s homeless shelters starting at age seven. When she was thirteen years old, she was encouraged to turn her church poetry into rap lyrics and developed an interest in releasing music.
Her first music video, "Gold Digger", was released on her official YouTube channel in August 2012 (when she was only 14) and quickly went viral. Several of her ensuing releases went viral as well, with her most notorious viral hits being "Deepthroat", "Vagina", and "CPR", the lattermost of which experienced a memetic renaissance on TikTok several years after its release.
Her first mixtape, Cum Cake, was released in 2016, followed by STD (Shelters to Deltas) the same year. She has since released four albums: Audacious (2016), Queen Elizabitch (2017), Ephorize (2018), and Eden (2018). Her most recent releases have all been non-album singles, most notably "Discounts", which earned her her very first #1 on iTunes (as well as making her the first independent black female rapper to achieve that distinction). She's also a mainstay featured artist for Charli XCX, having appeared on "Lipgloss", "I Got It", and "Shake It".
Oh, and fun fact: she went to the same elementary school as Chief Keef and Lil Reese!
Discography:
- Cum Cake (mixtape, 2016)
- S.T.D. (Shelters to Deltas) (mixtape, 2016)
- Audacious (2016)
- Queen Elizabitch (2017)
- Ephorize (2018)
- Eden (2018)
Lookin' like we belong on TV (Tropes), I'm rolling with the LGBT!
- Big Beautiful Woman: In previous years, though recently she's lost quite a bit of weight.
- Break Up Song: "Exit" is on the more spiteful end of this trope. CupcakKe discovers that her lover has been hooking up with his exes on the side and runs through a laundry list of his faults while demanding that he move out of their place ASAP.
- Boastful Rap: Whether it's about her wealth, her sexual prowess, or her skill in a fight, CupcakKe loves a self-aggrandizing lyric.
- The Diss Track: She has a few songs that could qualify as diss tracks, but her remix of 50 Cent's "How To Rob" takes this trope up to eleven, calling out a whopping twenty-three artists (ranging from Lady Gaga to Wiz Khalifa) in less than two minutes.
- Ethical Slut: Her work is incredibly sexualized, raunchy, and hedonistic, but she uses these themes to get her fans to reaffirm and enjoy who they are, whatever their skin color, gender or sexual orientation. She also takes the occasional moment to discuss the bad sides of sexuality and makes it clear that there are just as many lines that shouldn't be crossed as there are avenues of personal liberation.
- Female Empowerment Song: "Biggie Smalls" is a body-positivity anthem that encourages women of all sizes to cast aside their insecurities and love themselves for the way they are.One think she big like a whale, the other think she too frail
Both gotta understand that they gorgeous as hell! - Fun with Acronyms: The title of STD (Shelters to Deltas).
- The Immodest Orgasm: Her songs often include load moans.
- Intentionally Awkward Title: A vast portion of her song titles are just as explicit as the music itself, with gems like "Vagina", "Pedophile", "Deepthroat", and "Juicy Coochie" just off her first mixtape alone, itself called Cum Cake.
- Intercourse with You: Her music is very raunchy. Chances are, you could write an entire song about intercourse just by using the titles of her songs.
- I Have Many Names: Elizabeth Eden Harris, Queen Elizabitch or Marilyn Monhoe.
- Large Ham: One would seriously struggle to describe her as "subtle". She raps with incredible passion and swagger, her lyrics are in-your-face and explicit in more ways than one, and her beats tend to be just as wild.
- Lyrical Dissonance: Her musical atmosphere is generally loud, sassy, and energetic in nature, but she sometimes turns it against the listener. "Pedophile" is bluntly from the perspective of a little girl traumatized by a child molester, and the realization alone almost instantly makes its bouncy beat sound much more uncomfortable.
- My Nayme Is: That's "CupcakKe", not "Cupcakke", and certainly not "Cupcake" with only one k.
- N-Word Privileges: The word often appears in lyrics and the song title "Grilling Niggas".
- Pungeon Master: Don't let the bawdiness of her music distract you - she's a damn clever lyricist whose skill with punchlines and punnery is near-unrivaled.
- Refuge in Audacity: Her use of sexual imagery in her songs is so over-the-top that, after a while, it's hard to be shocked by it.
- Self-Empowerment Anthem: "LGBT" and "Crayons", though they retain her absurdist, horny-on-main tone, are surprisingly earnest queer anthems.
- Serial Homewrecker: In "Post Pic", she raps about posting thirst traps to gain the attention of men in relationships and spite their wives/girlfriends.
- Shout-Out Theme Naming: Her songs "Pinocchio", "Spider-Man Dick", "Jesus", "Squidward Nose", and "Marge Simpson".
- Silly Love Song: "Total" is an unusually (for her, anyway) sweet and affectionate song about her hopes for a new relationship.
- Surreal Humor: Her raunchiest lyrics often border on this.
- Unusual Euphemism: You'd be hard pressed to find a better embodiment of this trope than CupcakKe. Who else would compare a vagina to Mr. Clean, balls to a jumprope, and sex to a game of "Duck Duck Goose" all in the same song?
- Vulgar Humor: Her signature. All of her most iconic songs are laden with hilariously bizarre and explicit discussion of sex.
