Destiny Frasqueri

With 'Everything is Beautiful' and 'Everything Sucks', the New York rapper continues to defy those who would box them in.

I’m not okay, I promise.

Flava features on Destiny Frasqueri’s 1992 Deluxe album, out today.

Destiny Frasqueri, or Princess Nokia to you and I, makes music that’s rooted in the colourful pockets of New York City that raised her and is often inspired by the two women she’s closest to, Gia and Rafa.

The 24-year-old New Yorker opened up about record deals, creative freedom and new sounds, and proved herself once again to be an artist like no other.

You may have known her as rapper Wavy Spice, who released Bitch I’m Posh and featured on Ratking’s record, but now Destiny Frasqueri - the 22-year-old New Yorker behind it all – has dropped that moniker and become Princess Nokia, a cyberpunk hood girl...