The Many Faces and Voices of Rapper-Turned-Actor Princess Nokia

Princess Nokia can be found nowhere near the character she plays in the new movie “Angelfish.”  The New York rapper and actress, née Destiny Frasqueri, makes her film debut as Eva in the feature, but the character she takes on for the Peter Andrew Lee-directed movie is nothing like the persona she adopts on-stage or her real life self. “I thought it would be beautiful to create a character that I didn’t relate to,” Frasqueri says over the phone from her home in New York. She’s just come from a trip — before that, she was filming “Angelfish” and before that, she finished a world tour named after her 2017 album “1992,” the one that put her on the map as, in her words, “a semi-household name.”  Destiny Frasqueri aka Princess Nokia with costar Sandy Tejada in “Angelfish.”  Ramy Mam/Courtesy Photograph Frasqueri is known in musical circles as somewhat of an enigma. She isn’t a mainstream artist, nor does she exist on the fringes of rap; her latest single “Sugar Honey Ice Tea” has over a million views on YouTube and her hit “Tomboy” is in a commercial for the Millennial razor brand Billie.  Although Princess Nokia says she isn’t into putting labels on what she

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