Kitty - MiNT

What this video is

Kitty (born Kathryn-Leigh Beckwith, 1993) emerged from Daytona Beach, Florida as one of the defining artists of the Tumblr-rap moment, gaining viral recognition with 'Okay Cupid' in 2012. 'MiNT' appears to originate from the transitional 2013–2015 window when Kitty was moving away from her hip-hop origins — which she publicly declared she was 'over' by late 2014 — toward trance and electronic experimentation on the…

Why it matters

As a product of the Tumblr-rap era, 'MiNT' represents a key transitional moment in independent internet hip-hop: the period when artists who built audiences via social media began experimenting with genre boundaries. Kitty's migration from alt-hip-hop toward electronic and trance music is…