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Mikey Angelo’s Gen Z raps are so good TikTok banned him

'If I could be doing this for TikTok… I could be doing this for music, for real.'

 

Daysia Tolentino

Internet Culture

Posted on Aug 11, 2021   Updated on Jul 26, 2023, 6:17 pm CDT

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Mikey Angelo writes bars that will leave you speechless. The 23-year-old has a near-encyclopedic knowledge of contemporary pop and internet culture—in his words, he’s a “sponge to the culture”—and uses it to create raps that leave millions of TikTok users gobsmacked. For example: This reaction to one of his recent videos.

“Imma block ‘em when they come like an IUD—” Angelo rap starts.

“No,” a TikTok user cuts him off in a stitched video. “I literally had to stop it. It’s too early. I’m not even ready for the rest.”


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*First Published: Aug 11, 2021, 6:00 am CDT