Princess Nokia - Gemini

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🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Princess Nokia - "Gemini" from the 2020 self-released album Everything Is Beautiful.

Earlier this year, New York-born Puerto Rican MC Princess Nokia (real name: Destiny Nicole Frasqueri) released not one, but two albums: the perfectly-titled Everything Sucks and Everything is Beautiful. In a press release, Everything Sucks is described as “a brash, ruthless and insistent collection,” and Everything is Beautiful as “a representation of the sensitive, feminine side of the gender fluid artist.”

Today's Song of the Day reflects that duality as Frasqueri reflects on their astrological sign, the twins of the zodiac. “I am Gemini / Like Pac, André, Lauren / and Kanye, Boy George, and Anne Frank,” they rap. “And all the famous rappers got a sign like me / And all the famous rappers got a heart like me / But I know that I’m different and they’re not quite me.”

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0:00.0	I am Gemini,
0:02.0	Jumny,
0:03.0	Super Fly Fly Guy. I am Gemini, Gemini, super fly guy.
0:15.0	I am Gemini two heads one eye.
0:18.0	I am Gemini like Pac Andrei
0:21.0	Ruverin in Kondje, boy Georgian and frame.
0:24.0	I am Gemini, but no, I'm not fake.
0:27.0	I am Griffin Door, but don't move like snake.
0:30.0	I am Gemini.
0:31.0	People left to call me crazy, but they judging and they hate and I'm too
0:34.8	grown for explaining. I am Gemini, June 14th. And all the famous rappers got its signs like me.
0:41.5	And all the famous rappers got a sign like me and all the famous rappers that a heart like me
0:44.8	but I know that I'm different in they're not quite in.
0:47.8	I'm the Horoscopeo, I'm the planet and moon, I'm the rising ascendant,
0:52.1	fifth degree to the moon, I'm the witch ascending fifth degree to the moon I'm the witch of your dreams
0:55.0	I'm the boys in your head your husband sent me a damn and I just let the moon
0:59.0	rep my planets mercury my element is here I'm such a free spirit that I don't fucking care if I got a nut
1:07.1	I am moving out my chair you can kiss my dairy ear because he's shaped like a bear.
1:11.6	Little Zodiac, Ginger Snapp,
1:14.0	Pretty little Shorty with his snad back,
1:16.0	Terrodang, Onzac, like to get her feet wet with poop sweat,
1:19.0	The freak neck from more look to be exactly up like Kleenex.
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