Guayaba drags cultural appropriators in her latest track.
Guayaba drags cultural appropriators in her latest track. Kelly O

One of the city's most distinctive rapper/vocalists, Guayaba (formerly Aeon Fux) is an outspoken, bilingual advocate for queer POC who also doesn't avoid the pleasure principle in her unconventional hiphop productions. It's safe to say that she is the only artist in her field who's influenced by "power metal" and "the cycle of fruit growing and decaying and being eaten by insects."

Guayaba's latest joint, "Bye Bich (Dark Meat Remix)" (produced by Khris Moore and engineered by Eric Padget), spotlights her voice at its most sinister. Here, she calls out the environment that fosters inane cultural appropriators such as Bhad Bhabie with brutal verses such as:

little white girl in the back,
thinkin she bad and she wanna be black but it’s whack
might have some kids that look like me someday but
you’ll never be one of us fax
deadass, nails in dat the coffin
‘can I please speak to the manager’ headass; often
what we create doesn’t get turned into profit until it is bleached up and softened all bloated and rotten;
and dragged from the street and still riddled with bulled holes; you been craving dark meat,
you tear into us without much hesitation and; I know I taste sweet;
and I know the mouths it feeds
one day you’ll repent for your evil deeds
but no matter how many times that you try to bury us we’ll come back cuz we are seeds

The music is suitably horrorcore (remember Gravediggaz and some of KutMasta Kurt's backdrops for Kool Keith?), with beats that hit like slammed coffin lids and eerie, Theremin-like tones oscillating in the distance. The bass frequencies boom and disperse like imploded atom bombs, hilariously contrasting with the beautiful, gospel-esque backing vocals. All in all, "Bye Bich" is an incisive 105 seconds of bile.

Guayaba performs at the free Mercer X Summit Block Party on Saturday, August 18.