MuLATTO MADness by Breezy

It’s fitting that Breezy has released her second self-produced hip hop project, MuLATTO MADness, on Halloween. The sequel to last year’s melancholic Tragic Mulatto EP, this recent five-track mini album narrates the experience of living as a queer mulatto woman in times of heightened racial and gender violence...conditions for madness. The cunning of this release is that with the musicality of the hooks and the catchiness of the lyrics, Breezy is able to lay weighty themes on ears that can’t help but bob and weave to the rhythm of her beats.

The first track,“LOOKin for” is like driving on the freeway in summer sunshine with the windows rolled down. The gooey sunset synths and R&B vocal mask the air of uncertainty and instability in this opening track. “abOUT me (feat. Loud Lemons)” marks the descent within the narrative slope of MuLATTO MADness. While “LOOKin for” is drifting untethered, “abOUT me (feat. Loud Lemons)” slows down, allowing space to grapple with an intersectional identity. The anguish is punctuated by raspy baritone saxophone from French-Norwegian musician, Loud Lemons. The climax of the album is “male FRAGILITY,” a confrontational track that serves as a chance in new school hip hop for women to release pent-up aggression from the toxic masculinity of early 2000s hip hop. Breezy holds nothing back on the fourth track, “FREE Dee,” which tells the story of former rapper/tv host, Dee Barnes, and the aftermath of being assaulted by Dr. Dre in 1991. “an IsLAND,” is the song takes us out to sea, with the somber piano melody from Nina Simone’s, “Plain Gold Ring” as the lifeline. In the final seconds, Breezy loses her mind as her vocal shorts out and washes away.

Breezy will be performing tracks from MuLATTO MADness at the queer-fem hip hop party BERRIES Berlin and in November, doing a set with DJ/producer, Freak A. Della, at the Afro-futuristic queer-fem festival, Empower Music Fest. MuLATTO MADness is now available on all digital platforms including iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, as well as Soundcloud and Bandcamp for free streaming.

If Audre Lorde was a rapper, Breezy would be the embodiment because their hip hop takes on topics like racial identity, gender politics, and queerness. Breezy represents the fluidity in the gray area between “man” and “woman” or “Black” and “white.”

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