Tommy Genesis

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tommy Genesis

• Her grandparents were a scientist and a nurse. They moved to Canada after seeing a newspaper advertisement, which was asking for professionals in their fields.

• Her mother is Swedish, and her father is a Tamil-Malayali Christian from South India.

  

• Tommy Genesis was raised in a Christian household. She has publicly acknowledged her South Asian ancestry.

• In 2013, she began rapping and released the project G3NESIS.

• In 2015, Tommy Genesis released her debut mixtape, World Vision, after signing with Awful Records.

• She and other musicians were selected by Calvin Klein, an American fashion designer, for their fashion campaign in 2016.

• Tommy Genesis signed with Universal/Downtown Records in 2017.

• In 2017, she collaborated with rapper M.I.A. at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

• Tommy Genesis collaborated with Abra, another musician signed to Awful Records, on the World Vision song “Hair Like Water Wavy Like the Sea.”

• On 28 July 2018, she released the single “Hundred Bad.” This was her second collaboration with music producer Charlie Heat after their 2017 song “Tommy.”

  

• The song “Hundred Bad” was featured in her debut music album Tommy Genesis, which was released by Downtown/The Orchard.

• Charli XCX, a British singer and songwriter, released a remix of the song “Hundred Bad” on 7 September 2018.

• In 2020, Tommy Genesis worked with rapper JPEGMAFIA on his EP called EP!, on the song “ROUGH 7”. 

• In 2023, she was featured on Lana Del Rey’s music album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd on the 15th song “Peppers,” which used a sample from Genesis’s 2015 song “Angelina.”

• Tommy Genesis often discusses gender and sexuality in her songs.

• She once referred to herself as a “fetish rapper.”

• Tommy Genesis frequently opposes girls’ cyberbullying.

• She likes travelling to distant places in her free time.

  

• Tommy Genesis has walked the ramp for many noted fashion designers.