I've always been attracted to foul-mouthed dirtbags—the sleazy-jerko guys, oozing attitude, the ones you know you're not supposed to like. And I'm not alone. I've watched L.A. rapper Mickey Avalon's MySpace.com friend list jump from 6 to 1,553 in just weeks—and it's mostly made up of porny-looking girls throwing out offers to jump his bone. So how does a whitey-'froed, skinny rapper, a former-prostitute-hustler-junkie Jew from Hollywood, get so much pussy? 'Cause girls love sleaze just as much as boys. Maybe more.

Right now, the internet is the only place to get Mickey. I bought his self-titled CD from his website. What a perfect piece of shit. I can't stop playing it—my friends all want it—and someone stole it out of my iTunes at work. He's spreading here like a California wildfire. There are 10 tracks of what I can only describe as "punk hiphop"—stories of the ugly underbelly of Hollywood, delivered in Mickey's nasally apathetic style. The rhymes are ridiculous (rhyming "gay dudes" and "Quaaludes"; "Cristal bottle" with "anorexic model"). It's cocky and wrong and oh so right. The CD also has a freaky surprise: track number "69"—called "My Dick"—where Mickey and rappers Dirt Nasty and Andre Legacy hurl insults at each other ("My dick—so hot it's stolen—yo dick, look like Gary Coleman"), and claim to have "dicks like Jesus."

Both MySpace and www.mickeyavalon.com have MP3s—go check 'em out. I think this style of nasty, raw, sleazebag rap is gonna blow up in '06—with the boys and the girls.

editor@thestranger.com