| DAMAG3 (Ares Mascaro)
Rapper | Producer | Trans Revolutionary
A defiant pulse of New Orleans, DAMAG3 (she/they) crafts music that oscillates between unapologetic rage and tender self-reckoning. Her sound—a fusion of hip-hop’s grit, electronic abrasion, and trap-metal’s catharsis—is a survival toolkit for the marginalized. As a transgender woman, she channels her lived trauma into anthems that dissect systemic violence, religious hypocrisy, and the resilience of LGBTQ+, Black, and brown communities.
A pillar of the Hidden Renaissance collective, DAMAG3 amplifies voices erased by the mainstream, framing her art as both protest and protection.
Her journey ignited in 2021 with TH3 PR3S3NT MOM3NT, a debut album where she mirrored her life’s fractures and fought for her future. By 2022, her fire spread: the trans anthem DOUBL3 TAK3 (1M+ streams) weaponized her truth against societal disgust, while the raw honey EP (with KP Hunni + The Molecules) offered a rare moment of bruised serenity. That December, she self-titled her rebellion with DAMAG3, featuring the blistering PRISON (ft. Gao The Arsonist; 500K+ streams), a scream against cages literal and metaphorical.
2023 cemented her as a beacon. GENOCID3 (with Changline)—a trap-metal grenade tossed at trans genocide—viralized across TikTok, while LOV3 (limited edition) (1M+ streams) became a queer lifeline, balancing fury and hope. Collaborations like THE VALHALLA TAPES (with OJ Mountain) fused myth and Southern resistance, proving her range.
In 2024, DAMAG3’s 3AT TH3 RICH EP (August) sharpens her class-war blade, lambasting billionaire vultures over RJ Pasin’s scorching riffs in BiLLY iN B3LLY. For her, every beat is a battleground; every lyric, a lifeline.
Key Collaborators: KP Hunni, The Molecules, Gao The Arsonist, Changline, OJ Mountain, RJ Pasin.
Latest Weapon: 3AT TH3 RICH (EP, 2024).
“We’re not just surviving their noise—we’re drowning it out with our own.” |
