{"id":794032,"date":"2019-03-21T20:38:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T02:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=811669"},"modified":"2019-03-21T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T02:38:28","slug":"cupcakke-raps-in-darkened-warehouse-for-foreboding-bird-box-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/cupcakke-raps-in-darkened-warehouse-for-foreboding-bird-box-video\/","title":{"rendered":"CupcakKe Raps in Darkened Warehouse for Foreboding \u2018Bird Box\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CupcakKeBirdBoxVideo.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cupcakke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cupcakke\" data-tag=\"cupcakke\">CupcakKe<\/a> hits a darkened warehouse-looking space, heightening her urgent, rapid-fire bars in her new video for \u201cBird Box.\u201d It\u2019s her second new single of the year, following the Chicago rapper\u2019s previous released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-new-song-squidward-nose-777369\/\">Squidward Nose<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minimalist new visual finds the rapper, alongside a silent friend as the two groove together, inside a barebones room while red lights pulsate on and off to the beat, which enhances the foreboding vibe that\u2019s reminiscent of the song\u2019s horror film namesake. The low-end bass reverberates as CupcakKe adeptly intertwines pop cultural references and drops in savage attack lines all while keeping the flirty come-ons rolling.<\/p>\n<p>CupcakKe\u2019s recent singles follow the release of her two albums from last year, Ephorize and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/cupcakke-eden-interview-chicago-iggy-azalea-754156\/\"><em>Eden<\/em><\/a>, and she embarked on a tour&nbsp;<em>Eden<\/em>\u2018s fall release. In January, she opened up about her struggle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-reportedly-hospitalized-troubling-social-media-posts-776174\/\">depression and suicidal thoughts<\/a> after she sent out a concerning tweet that led to a police wellness check and ensuing hospitalization. That same week, she returned with the entertainingly raunchy \u201cSquidward Nose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cupcakke-bird-box-video-watch-811669\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CupcakKe hits a darkened warehouse-looking space, heightening her urgent, rapid-fire bars in her new video for \u201cBird Box.\u201d It\u2019s her second new single of the year, following the Chicago rapper\u2019s previous released \u201cSquidward Nose.\u201d The minimalist new visual finds the rapper, alongside a silent friend as the two groove together, inside a barebones room while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 21:16:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}