Genesis

When the Vancouver native broke through with her debut mixtape, 2015’s *World Vision* (released on Awful Records, the era’s coolest DIY rap label), she cheekily referred to her sex-positive style as “fetish rap.” A decade later, the half-Tamil, half-Swedish rapper introduces her third album with a question: “I’ve rapped about my pussy/And I’ve rapped about my ex/But what would you do if I gave you me/And just talked about Genesis?” (Her birth name, after all, is Genesis Yasmine Mohanraj.) Here, she trades the bawdy provocation of her early work for earthy, mystic sensuality, steeped in ancient myths and her Tamil heritage. She also trades her snappy bars for dreamy spoken-word poetry, ruminating on her inner child, past lives, and twin flames over moody guitar loops (“Genesis”) and wistful electronica (“Homebound”).