Mykki Blanco first started releasing music in the early 2010s and gained mainstream recognition for her ad libs on Teyana Taylor's track "WTP." She disclosed her HIV-positive status in 2015 and has been vocal about fighting the stigma that comes with it since then. "F--- stigma and hiding in the dark, this is my real life," she wrote in a Facebook post that same year. "I'm healthy I've toured the world 3 times but [I've] been living in the dark, [it's] time to actually be as punk as I say I am." Today, she identifies as transgender. She started hormone replacement therapy in 2019.