Tommy Genesis

A self-described "fetish rapper" whose lyrics confront traditional notions of sex and sexuality, Tommy Genesis channels her multidisciplinary impulses across music, fashion, and visual art. Her 2018 self-titled debut first drew broader notice after Charli XCX supplied a remix of the track "100 Bad." She refined her emotionally cinematic and deliberately provocative approach through guest appearances alongside Dakari, Lil West, and JPEGMAFIA, then delivered her second album, Goldilocks X, in 2021.

A 2023 guest spot on Lana Del Rey's "Peppers" preceded the 2024 EP World on Fire, produced with Charlie Heat.

Born in Vancouver to Swedish and Tamil parents, Genesis studied piano in childhood and completed her first song at age ten. She also pursued visual art, asserting that she was already making BDSM-themed paintings during kindergarten. Enrolled in art school, she trained in filmmaking yet grew impatient with its constraints and sought broader outlets. A required audio-recording course reignited her musical ambitions, prompting stints in local punk bands and a hip-hop collaboration called Moan. By 2013 she was issuing minimalist, atmospheric raps under the G3NESIS banner. Several tracks reached Father, founder of Atlanta's Awful Records, who signed her; the resulting mixtape World Vision appeared in July 2015.

Her openly sexual yet darkly tinged lyrics, paired with a signature style of short plaid skirts, cropped heavy-metal T-shirts, and heavy boots, quickly made her a focal point of the underground scene and led to her inclusion in Calvin Klein's 2016 advertising campaign. After the 2016 indie singles "Art" and "They Cum, They Go," she signed with Downtown/Interscope Records, releasing "Empty" in March 2017 and "Tommy" that September. The June 2018 single "100 Bad" later received the Charli XCX remix; both versions, along with the earlier track "Daddy," anchored her November 2018 debut album Tommy Genesis.

In the ensuing year she contributed to tracks by Dakari and Lil West while issuing the non-album singles "I'm Yours" and "Bricks" with Charli XCX. These efforts culminated in Goldilocks X, which arrived in September 2021 bearing production from Good Times Ahead, the Martinez Brothers, Charlie Heat, and Stelios. Two years later she appeared on Lana Del Rey's "Peppers." The Charlie Heat collaboration World on Fire followed in 2024, accompanied by the standalone cut "Burn the Witch" with PVRIS and Alice Longyu Gao.