Mean Streets

Related Content

• Mickey Avalon on Death, Sex, and Addiction
  September 22, 2011
• Kool Keith, Dirt Nasty, and Slimmie Hendrix Headline This Year's Arizona Pornstar Ball
  January 31, 2012
• Colour Revolt, Arrowheart, Mickey Avalon and More in This Week's Issue
  September 22, 2011
• Simon Rex/Dirt Nasty to Invade Martini Ranch Every Thursday Starting This Week
  July 28, 2009
• Dirt Nasty meets Dirty Scottsdale
  July 30, 2009

More About

• Mickey Avalon
• Simon Rex

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Events Newsletter: What's happening in town? From underground club nights to the biggest outdoor festivals, our top picks for the week's best events will always keep you in on the action.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Mickey Avalon's been through some shit, man. His mom had him selling weed for her when he was just a teenager. She fired him a little while later, though, when she discovered he was shooting up smack at the age of 16. And things got only stickier and trickier from there when he moved to Portland, where he began robbing cats and turning tricks to pay for dope. Avalon eventually got cleaned up and, at the urging of his pal and former MTV personality, Simon Rex (a.k.a. Dirt Nasty), he started writing rhymes, the results of which can be heard on his self-titled debut. Though many of Avalon's raps are downright lame, others, such as "Waiting to Die," are unsettlingly honest: "A street walker selling cock for rock/At the flea market trying to hock my watch/I stay on beat when I work the concrete." Doesn't exactly sound like a rapper's delight.
Sat., Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m., 2008