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Mykki Blanco is stepping away from music. The rapper has announced a plan to pursue a career in investigative journalism, "particularly focusing on documenting and writing about homosexuality and gay culture in remote corners of the world."

The Facebook note reads:

I must be honest, writing words that rhyme over beats made by other people mostly male no longer interests me and I've felt this way for over a year now. I do not find being a "rapper" fascinating and rather than waste the remaining 9 months of 2015 in some kind of FAKE existential crisis where I pretend I don't know what I want I'm taking the initial steps to securing what I know I do want, to observe and write about places and cultures in our world not known to many and to better educate myself about the cultures, gender politics and patriarchy that shape our society so that I may one day be able to speak and influence our world in a way a dance song and music video cannot.

Long term, Blanco plans to enroll in a sociology and gender studies program and has planned a trip to Nepal in May to learn firsthand about LGBT rights in the country, "specifically that of the 'third gender' group referred to as 'Meti'".

"I feel that the entertainment and music industry has given me a wonderful platform, one I intend to use as a novice in this field to share my research my writing and my findings with a much wider audience in a forum that might be more accessible than others," she wrote.

Blanco's mixtape Gay Dog Food was released in late 2014.

Read the entire note here.