In a big day for Thai hip-hop, dissident teen rapper Danupha “Minnie” Kanateerakul, aka Milli, became the first Thai solo artist to take the stage at Coachella for a performance that left her fans hungry for more.
Emerging before a backdrop of LCD flames, hip-hop sensation Milli, 19, officially went global early Sunday local time when she played the first weekend of Coachella in Indio, California, as part of a lineup of Asian talents signed to the label 88rising.
Milli performed a mashup of some of her fan favorites like Mirror Mirror and Sud Pang but stole the internet’s heart by eating from a dessert plate and howling at the crowd, “Who wants mango and rice that is sticky?!” before exiting the stage.
Soon after the performance, Milli stans were echoing her cry of “One thing, I didn’t ride an elephant!” across the internet and transfixed by…
