tommy
who is
“fetish rapper”
self-coined
in Vancouver, Canada, a girl by the name of Genesis was born. She had a vision and a mission that didn’t align with what other artists were doing yet.
She was effortlessly subversive, penning lyrics that’d give ¨Fifty Shades of Grey¨ a run for its money.
She was effortlessly subversive, penning lyrics that’d give ¨Fifty Shades of Grey¨ a run for its money.
In a few short years, she’d become Tommy Genesis, an underground icon, flicking her long blonde tresses across stages, catwalks and glossy adverts worldwide.
In 2015, she made her first signing with Atlanta-based Awful Records. Tugging on deep-house sonics — which takes some adjusting to, on first listen — Tommy Genesis in 2021 extends her pursuit of boundless musical palettes, challenging consumers’ expectations of both her ear and her compositions.
Tommy Genesis continues to blur genre conformities. Serenading the moody, textured, often clamorous music, she began to craft her self-coined ¨fetish rap¨ in the process, satisfying a legion of grassroots audiences, embracing her sexuality and brand of quirk unapologetically, all while managing to revitalise trap’s underground.
Tommy is a self-proclaimed ¨fetish rapper¨
The openly bisexual rapper described her music as ¨fetish rap¨, and opened up about the term: ¨Oral fixation. Sexual deviance. Saying things to get a reaction or coveting sexual experiences. I didn’t know how else to say
The openly bisexual rapper described her music as ¨fetish rap¨, and opened up about the term: ¨Oral fixation. Sexual deviance. Saying things to get a reaction or coveting sexual experiences. I didn’t know how else to say
Once upon a time
She's an artist
in all sense
of the word
Despite writing her first song at the age of 10, Genesis first studied gender politics, film and sculpture at college, before turning her attention towards the music industry.
The reason I originally started calling my music ¨fetish rap¨ is because I acknowledge my music as niche and not being for everyone. So it’s kind of like, if you do like it, it’s kind of your fetish — you like it because it’s like that.
But after I said it, it just blew up and everyone started using it as a term for my music. I wouldn’t say Tommy is not fetish rap, but it’s so much more than that. |
But after I said it, it just blew up and everyone started using it as a term for my music. I wouldn’t say Tommy is not fetish rap, but it’s so much more than that. |
Tommy Genesis
TOMMY GENESIS
When asked by Dazed to attach a genre to her music, Genesis said:
The internet is my heritage, and ¨genre¨ is just a word. My cultural lens is a blurry, undefined intimate one — like peeping through your neighbours blinds and seeing something you’re not supposed to see. It’s that in a musical form.
The internet is my heritage, and ¨genre¨ is just a word. My cultural lens is a blurry, undefined intimate one — like peeping through your neighbours blinds and seeing something you’re not supposed to see. It’s that in a musical form.
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