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Almost Famous: Mickey Avalon
A not-so-reformed hood rat mines junkie/whore past for comic-rap gold.
Mickey Avalon is on a train headed to New York City, but he should be at a sound check in New Jersey. “I ditched my manager,” he says. “He keeps sending me nasty text messages.”
For Avalon, chaos has been a lifelong companion. Growing up in Los Angeles, his dad was a heroin addict and his mom a pot dealer, a profession he acquired at age 14. In his late teens, the rapper (born Yeshe Perl) became an Orthodox Jew. By his early 20s, he had married, had a daughter, shaved his beard and moved to Portland, Oregon, where he turned to prostitution, giving hand jobs to fund a raging smack habit. While in Portland, tragedy struck his family: His sister died of a heroin overdose and his father was killed in a car accident.
Returning to L.A., he cleaned up (sort of) and befriended ex-MTV VJ Simon Rex, who reawakened Avalon’s teenage passion for hip-hop. “I’d go to his house, smoke weed and fuck around with songs,” Avalon, 27, says. His ensuant self-titled debut — the first release in a joint deal between MySpace and Interscope — is a glam rap record about Hollywood’s seedy underbelly and the ugliness of his own life (and penis), told through the wry eyes of a filthy Borscht Belt comic.
Over squishy synths on “Waiting to Die,” he raps, “I used to work nights at hotcock.com/But then I got fired when my mom logged on.” On “So Rich, So Pretty,” he says, “She gets naughty with her Pilates body/And thinks it’s really funny when her nose goes bloody.” And on “My Dick,” he claims, “My dick cost a late-night fee/Your dick got the HIV.”
Given his past and over-the-top persona, his shirtless, pelvis-baring live shows border on voyeuristic. “It’s another form of prostitution,” he says. “It just doesn’t smell as bad.”
This guy is has a pretty funny song out called my dick with classic lines like "my dick cost a late night fee, your dick has the hiv"
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