‘Morphine‘ is the latest video from Princess Nokia’s latest mixtape, A Girl Cried Red (Rough Trade Records). The shape shifting emcee—aka Destiny Frasqueri—co-directed the video with Travis Libin and features Frasqueri and her friends taking their taking their DIY rave to NYC rooftops, playgrounds and streets. The track was produced by Flexatelli and the video features a short snippet of an unreleased track by Princess Nokia and Owwwls. Watch the video for ‘Morphine’ below.
The dynamic and outspoken New York rapper has been releasing music via YouTube and Soundcloud since she was in high school and catapulted herself to the next level with her 2017 album 1992 Deluxe—selling out venues across the globe and steadily gaining tens of millions of streams. A Girl Cried Red showcases another fully formed side of Destiny that still taps into the uncompromising feminist ideology of Princess Nokia, and will undoubtedly cement her place in the alternative underground as well as the hip-hop world. Read more about the mixtape’s inspiration via Dazed.
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“…Frasqueri’s talk of bleeding eyes and stories of heartbreak aren’t so much a genre throwback as they are part of a new future that she is helping forge, one that moves far beyond what its forebears could have imagined.”
– The New Yorker
“She’s a versatile, imaginative talent with a knack for shape shifting.”
– Los Angeles Times
“Princess Nokia has built quite the following as an outspoken, mystical iconoclast, who deftly and effortlessly glides from genre to genre. She’s a little bit rock and roll, a little bit singer-songwriter, always with the spirit and soul of hip-hop anarchy.” – Paper Magazine
“Princess Nokia (Destiny Nicole Frasqueri) is one of the strongest voices in rap right now, as she puts her feminism, Nuyorican identity and emo sensibility at the forefront of her music and public persona.” – Chicago Tribune
“Princess Nokia channels the hyper-emotional feels of 2000s emo on ‘Your Eyes Are Bleeding,’ an over-enunciated, head-bopping mini-masterpiece.” – The FADER
“Instead of waiting for an invite to the melodramatic party, Princess Nokia counters the male gaze that the emo scene can shamelessly thrive on, presenting a fresh narrative from the mind of an Afro-Latina with her A Girl Cried Red mixtape.” – MTV / TRL
“The deeply introspective rapper/multi-purpose artist/all-around maven’s A Girl Cried Red mixtape was a quality excursion through the emo genre.” – Uproxx
