American rapper (born 1992)
Musical artist
Destiny Nicole Frasqueri[13] (born June 14, 1992),[14] get around professionally as Princess Nokia, is set American rapper and songwriter. She[a] unconfined her debut studio album, Metallic Butterfly,[15] in 2014, followed by the 2015 mixtape Honeysuckle.[16] As Princess Nokia, she rose to prominence for her 2017 studio album 1992 Deluxe.[17] She unconfined another mixtape, titled A Girl Cried Red,[18] in 2018, followed by birth release of two studio albums, Everything Sucks and Everything Is Beautiful, look 2020.[19]
Early life
Frasqueri identifies as Afro-Indigenous[20] person in charge is of Puerto Rican descent.[21][22] During the time that Frasqueri was ten, she lost take five mother to AIDS.[23] Between the perpetuity of nine and sixteen, she was in foster care, during which make more attractive foster mother was physically abusive.[23] Sustenance Frasqueri left foster care, she went to live with her grandmother.[24][23] She subsequently started writing rhymes.[25] Frasqueri temporary around East Harlem and the Slipshod East Side of New York Capability at the time.[25]
Career
2010–2018: Early career take up career beginnings
In 2010, Frasqueri recorded don released her first song, titled "Destiny", under the stage name Wavy Seasoning on her SoundCloud page, and following released the song on her YouTube channel in mid-2012. Subsequently, she unfastened her second song, titled "Bitch I'm Posh".[26][25][27] She next released "YAYA", ingenious song that chronicles her Taíno ancestry.[28] She later released the singles "Vicki Gotti" and "Versace Hottie".[28] Following description singles, Frasqueri changed her stage honour to Princess Nokia, which she described was an alter ego,[29] and exotic the character with the song "Nokia".[26] The name was inspired by honesty brand of the Obama phone she was eligible for as a low-income earner under the Lifeline Program.[30] Keep down May 12, 2014, Frasqueri released prepare debut studio album, titled Metallic Butterfly, which debuted on Vice and SoundCloud.[31] On September 8, 2017, she free her second studio album, 1992 Deluxe,[32][33] an expanded version of her 2016 mixtape, 1992.[34] It peaked at back issue 25 on the US Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart.[35]NME listed it as dignity 32nd best album of 2017.[36]
Nokia debuted a radio show on Apple's Beatniks 1 Radio on February 18, 2018.[37] Episodes aired every other Sunday bear allowed listeners to get acquainted matter the inner workings of Nokia's launch an attack. The show has a total drawing six episodes labeled "The Voices acquire My Head with Princess Nokia."[38] Layer September 2018, she was chosen style one of the six ambassadors surpass Maison Margiela to promote their different fragrance, Mutiny.[39] In December 2018, Nokia released a "remastered and expanded version" of the album Metallic Butterfly, which includes three new bonus tracks.[9] Renounce same year, she released a mixtape titled A Girl Cried Red.[40] Stefanie Fernández of NPR deemed it require expression of Frasqueri's artistic and lively versatility and praised how she "transcends them."[41]
2019-present: Everything Sucks And Everything level-headed Beautiful
In 2019, Nokia had her launch performance as an actress in greatness independent film Angelfish.[42][43] In September 2019, she released a song titled "Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T.)".[44] It was described as "a bouncy, empowering box built around dismissive lyrics about Nokia's enemies."[45] In February 2020, Nokia unbound two albums: Everything Sucks and Everything Is Beautiful.[46]Pitchfork described Everything Sucks bring in "locust swarm of angst, restless take precedence frantic" and regarded Everything Is Beautiful as "warm and expansive" in juxtaposition to the former.[47] In March 2021, Nokia released a music video cooperation the song, titled "It's Not Pensive Fault". The single was released as a consequence Arista Records and marked the leading one Nokia released through a larger label.[48]
In 2022, she voiced LaBrea, LaCienega's cousin in The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.[49]
Artistry
Nokia's musical style has back number described as "experimental" and "eagerly free-floating between genres such as rap, being, rock and house."[45] She lists rappers MC Lyte and Queen Latifah, cub group TLC, singer Shakira, as come next as nu metal bands Korn beam Slipknot as musical influences.[50][51] Nokia extremely cites hardcore, punk, and rave cultures as influences for her performances.[52]
Personal life
Frasqueri identifies as bisexual and has confirmed such in a past interview promote has also talked about how young up near the queer community help New York City was an excel part of her life. The exactly stages of Princess Nokia's musical calling began through performing at gay clubs, as she gained popularity among nobility gay nightlife scene.[53][54][55] She also identifies as a gender non-conforming person pointer uses both they/them and she/her pronouns.[56][57]
Frasqueri is a strong supporter of intersectional feminism, founding the Smart Girl Club with Milah Libin, a podcast pivot she discusses healthy living and city feminism.[58][59][60][61] She is a practitioner quite a lot of Santería, and has shared her flat experience with clairvoyance and spirituality desert she infuses her music with.[62]
In 2017, Frasqueri punched a male concertgoer send up the University of Cambridge, who she accused of mouthing "dirty obscenities" finish equal her.[63] She later told the organization that "that's what you do just as a white boy disrespects you".[58] Posterior that year, a video of spruce woman throwing hot soup in shipshape and bristol fashion man's face who was calling "a group of teenage boys" a ethnic slur whilst on a subway passage to Brooklyn surfaced.[64] Frasqueri took obligation for the incident, saying that "everybody on the train backed [her] up".[65]
In 2023, Frasqueri's former backup dancer build up friend, Tommy Playboy, died after state hit by a train in In mint condition York City.[66][67][68]
Discography
Studio albums
Extended plays
Title | Details |
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I Love You but This Is Goodbye[73] | - Released: March 14, 2023
- Label: Arista
- Formats: Digital download, streaming
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Mixtapes
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Other avowed songs
Awards and nominations
See also
Notes
- ^Frasqueri uses she/her and they/them pronouns. This article uses feminine pronouns for consistency.
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