Yesterday Mykki Blanco spoke with Entertainment Weekly to promote his new album, Gay Dog Food, which drops today.

In the interview, Blanco describes the album as “gross,” and he characterizes sound as “like it’s coming out of white noise.” He compares the “crunchy” sound to an “air conditioning unit and a blender,” and he says his “more pensive and feminine” energy is the yin to the yang of known acts with similar sounds — such as Death Grips, System of a Down, Limp Bizkit.

Blanco talks sexuality, too. On the one hand, being gay means his work is often given less credit. Blanco remembers a particular anecdote: 

To be honest I remember when my song “Haze.Boogie.Life” came on a friend—he didn’t say this to make me feel bad, it was just the f–king truth—he was like, you have one of the hottest f–king songs right now, but because you’re a gay rapper, people are trying to turn a blind eye toward it. If Lil Wayne or somebody came out with this song, it would be on the radio.

He also is annoyed by the labels he is given, saying he finds it “stupid” if a listener hears his new album and still wants to just put him in the simple box of “gay rapper.”

Check out the artist’s SoundCloud here.