Digital Dream: CRASHprez · p1nkstar X mextasis
Sat 05/29/21
8:00PM
All Ages
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CRASHprez
(Chicago, IL)
Genre: Hip-Hop
CRASHprez was born from lonely musings in a suburban basement in Prince George’s County, MD. The “CRASH” originates from a poetry event in Baltimore in the summer of 2010: he almost passed out from dehydration and the homies clowned him for it, giving him the nickname. The “prez” comes from his time at Kettering Elementary: the school nurse told him he could be president one day.
CRASHprez is a hip-hop project rooted in the traditions of protest music, remix culture and digital DIY. Through an intersectional lens, he interrogates the triumphs and turmoil of modern society from the vantage of a millennial Black man in the United States. He’s shared stages with Chance the Rapper, Danny Brown, Vince Staples, Ab-Soul, and Lil B the Based God among many others.
p1nkstar
(Austin, TX)
Genre: DJ, Pop
p1nkstar creates a world far removed from this dimension’s binaries through music and conceptual shows, merging hyperpop with neo-perreo and club. She has been described as “early Aughts Paris Hilton on Hello Kitty steroids” by The Austin Chronicle, who crowned her as their Pop Princess in 2020. Since 2016, p1nkstar has rapidly become an emblematic figure in the Texas arts and nightlife scenes by opening inclusive spaces that center the work of trans and queer artists.
p1nkstar’s work has been exhibited at The Contemporary Austin, the Blanton Museum of Art, The Visual Arts Center, SXSW, Fusebox Festival & The Roots & Culture Contemporary Arts Center in Chicago & she has supported acts like Charli XCX, Crystal Waters, Pussy Riot, The Ladies of LCD Soundsystem, Alok V. Menon, Dorian Electra and more.
Genre: DJ, Pop