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"After a wild 2012, Florida rapper Kitty is starting this year with a fresh focus.&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;I exist in the real world now,&amp;quot; the 19-year-old MC, formerly known as Kitty Pryde, tells Rolling Stone. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s going to be nice because people won&amp;apos;t be able to just say that I&amp;apos;m a meme anymore.&amp;quot;\r\nKitty arrived swiftly and unannounced on the Internet last year behind her video for &amp;quot;Okay Cupid.&amp;quot; Soon, she was releasing her debut EP haha i&amp;apos;m sorry, playing shows in New York, connecting with then-crush Danny Brown and a slew of other rappers, relocating part-time to New York, finding love with producer Hot Sugar and ending the year on Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s 50 Best Songs of 2012.\r\n50 Best Songs of 2012: Kitty Pryde, &amp;apos;Okay Cupid&amp;apos;\r\nBut the Internet is a tough place, and as quickly as she appeared, so did the skeptics. With her new EP D.A.I.S.Y. Rage&amp;#xA0;out tomorrow, Kitty has augmented her new name with more sweetly hypnotic&amp;#xA0;rhymes that dispel the idea that she&amp;apos;s just some sort of cyberspace stoop kid. &amp;quot;Honestly, the whole Internet thing, people kind of made that up themselves,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;I did talk about it but not any more than anyone else did, so I think people just kind of assumed that I was just an Internet dweller because that&amp;#x2019;s where they heard it.&amp;quot;\r\nThe eight tracks on D.A.I.S.Y. Rage &amp;#x2013; featuring production from Mike Finito, GRANT, Hot Sugar and more &amp;#x2013; delve into intimate and personal details, things that may be easy to share semi-anonymously online but are perhaps more difficult to reveal in real life. &amp;quot;R.R.E.A.M.&amp;quot; finds an aggravated Kitty scratching &amp;quot;the bumps on her skin&amp;quot; as she plays on Wu-Tang Clan and chants &amp;quot;rash rules everything around me.&amp;quot; She rekindles romance on a rework of &amp;quot;Ay Shawty,&amp;quot; swapping Orlando rapper Dankte for Das Racist affiliate Lakutis as her love subject with a new beat from Hot Sugar.\r\nShe finds time for the haters, too. &amp;quot;Who do your voodoo, bitch? You can&amp;apos;t harm me,&amp;quot; she raps on &amp;quot;Dead Island,&amp;quot; building on a lyric from the theme song to the video game Dead Island&amp;#xA0;(the song&amp;apos;s title is clearly no coincidence). Though some people still don&amp;apos;t like her, the increasing numbers and visible support of those who do have changed&amp;#xA0;Kitty&amp;apos;s perspective on her own music and presence. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s weird now because I never thought that I&amp;apos;d have anybody looking up to me as like a role model,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;Now, I get a lot of messages and stuff [and] people that tell me when I meet them that they look up to me and they want to be like me.&amp;quot;\r\nThat&amp;apos;s a big reason why Kitty has opened up about her past on&amp;#xA0;Tumblr, where she&amp;apos;s written about her struggles with body image, an eating disorder and other issues, hoping to set a good example, especially for younger fans. &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t want to be a negative influence because I&amp;apos;ve seen so many negative influences on me,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;If I can be somebody that can make them feel better about themselves as opposed to other people who might make them feel like they&amp;apos;re not good enough or not pretty enough, I think that I should use that power.&amp;quot;\r\nAs for the name change, she maintains she was never sued by Marvel, but instead felt the plight of unhappy X-Men fans. &amp;quot;If somebody was calling themselves James Franco and I really hated their music and every time I Googled James Franco, I was seeing somebody I hated, that would suck because then I wouldn&amp;#x2019;t be seeing James Franco,&amp;quot; she explains, a fan of comics herself. As true believers know, with great power, there must also come great responsibility.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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