Princess Nokia, the great New York MC and thrower of soup on belligerent subway racists, recently opened up about her emo phase in high school (and losing her virginity to nü-metal band System of a Down, awesome,) which is something I relate to (and still relate to, if I’m being honest?) It seems as though this isn’t something she really grew out of, either, since she’s promising a new mixtape of “real alternative music.” Hell yeah.
Elsewhere in the interview, Nokia talks about her new Beats 1 show, “The Voices in My Head,” what she makes of emo’s resurgence (if it ever went away,) and just how important the genre is to black and brown kids growing up.
Looks like there’s some good in emo after all.