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If Mickey's not shirtless,there's a problem.
Mickey Avalon sort of creeps me out. And that’s why I love him.
The Cali-bred rap lizard is best known for his illicit behavior, both on stage and within the deep and dirty storylines of his songs. The words he speaks are true, plucked from Mickey’s past as a prostitute, drug-abuser, and key player in his mother’s own Beverly Hills weed-dealing business.
Mickey draws the young, the vacant, the celebrity-obsessed, the intoxicated, and those like me— lovers of rap and the filthy underbelly of music, Mickey’s Jesus-posing falling in line with other grimy, raunchy saviors like Iggy Pop, Ol' Dirty Bastard, and even GG Allin.
His flow is breezy and cool, a perfect paradox to his razor-cut rhymes that burn with Hollywood Boulevard hedonism. The creepy-sexiness housed in Mickey’s tiny frame reminds me of Axl Rose in the “Welcome to the Jungle” video—if Axl was the pusher waiting outside of the Greyhound bus instead of the corn-fed boy stepping off it.
If you aren’t familiar with Mickey’s work, you may still know him from a very mainstream-oriented cameo in last year’s Boost Mobile commercial, a spot which boasted not only an appearance by the “dude who’s got what you need” and his Snoop Dogg-inspired perm, but major rap-game players like Jermaine Dupri and Young Jeezy.
Seeing Mickey strutting for cell phones in his trademark eyeliner-embraced sleepy gaze made me smile. Watch him drop a slinky-cool line in the commercial below:
Does hanging with JD and Jeez give Mickey credibility? Maybe. Does it make him cool? Totally.
Catch Mickey Avalon tonight at the Ogden Theater in Denver, and at the Aggie Theater in Ft. Collins tomorrow night with Dirt Nasty and Beardo. Tickets are $15-24.
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