![]() In 2016, she released 1992, a nine-track mixtape, which was later bolstered with eight additional tracks and re-released as an official album on Rough Trade Records. ![]() By the time she took on the moniker Princess Nokia she was seasoned, and ready to be heard by the world. Before her best-known album, 1992 Deluxe, she released the song Destiny under the pseudonym Wavy Spice, and went on to release more singles via YouTube and SoundCloud, bootstrapping her career and organically growing her fan base. Soon she started to tour, and was featured on tracks with NYC rap group Ratking. She’s come a long way, but to be honest the music has always been inside of her. “There’s something to be said about the imprint and the narrative of brown women that create friendships within these art worlds and music scenes and cities and networks of people and youth and subculture.” This was her doing and I could not be more adrenalized to be there with her for it. "When I was a young girl I always wanted to be the underground, I always wanted to do music and I always wanted to be in the art world and all that cool stuff.” I have been observing her growth for years, watching that vision come to fruition, and here we are, sitting on set in a multimillion dollar mansion off 54th Street, filled with racks of designer clothes and shoes, a team of professionals getting her camera-ready, and a photographer ready to shoot the dreamlike scene with Destiny as the protagonist.
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