Someday, Somewhere, While "Your Eyes Are Bleeding" Plays

So many new artists I actually care about right now, and not enough hours to keep up with all of them. Princess Nokia—Destiny Nicole Frasqueri, born 1992—is near the top of the pile. Her hip-hop is laid-back and feminist and built for any situation: getting high, fucking, doing the dishes. Drop "Metallic Butterfly," "Honeysuckle," or "1992" and the room gets better immediately.

She’s also not someone you want to underestimate in person. On her European tour, she stepped off the stage in Cambridge to physically confront a guy who’d been mouthing off at her from the crowd. And "Tomboy" has become one of the central texts of queer rap—the kind of song a crowd receives less like a track and more like a statement. The generation that supposedly doesn’t care about anything keeps producing people like this, and I find that genuinely comforting.

Her new mixtape is out, and the first thing off it is "Your Eyes Are Bleeding"—chilled out and somehow timeless, the kind of track you put on and never feel the urge to skip. I’ve been playing it on repeat for days. At some point I’m going to roll one with Princess Nokia and make out a little while this plays. I can already feel it coming. Someday, somewhere, somehow.