Noname - Rainforest
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Noname - "Rainforest," a 2021 self-released single.
Since the release of her outstanding 2018 debut, Room 25, Chicago rapper Noname (real name: Fatimah Nyeema Warner) has stepped away from music a little, focusing on social justice by reading books on anti-capitalism, sharing resources and links to non-profit organizations on Twitter, and then in 2019, launching the Noname Book Club, a way for her to "highlight progressive work from writers of Color and writers within the LGBTQ community" with books being donated to those who are incarcerated.
With her triumphant return to music, she speaks out against mass rainforest destruction, tweeting, "anyone who listened to my new song rainforest should read and share this." The single was produced by The Kount and features additional vocals from Adam Ness; and, it's the lead single from her just-announced album Factory Baby (release date TBA). She also tweeted that there would be no merch to support the song, but encouraged fans to donate to the Noname Book Club Patreon to help them send more books to incarcerated members.
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| 0:00.0 | How you get close to the love? How you lemonade all your sadness when you're opening up? How you make excuses for billion as you broken up us? |
| 0:22.0 | Johnny Nick is robbing me, rolling up and smoking me up because because my rain forest cries |
| 0:27.0 | Everybody dies a little and I just want to dance tonight |
| 0:32.0 | And I just want to dance tonight |
| 0:35.0 | Ah, yeah, hear my little baby my dudes are tipping and juice up |
| 0:39.0 | I go back and forth and I all over travel for two months on the empty as hallelujah |
| 0:43.0 | Open my chest up, it's a rabbit and it's on my hat |
| 0:46.0 | Angel all dressed up, looking up, blessed up at the milk and the honey gay |
| 0:49.0 | So I make money for money, say God they're right in a hundred days |
| 0:52.0 | To the wretched out the earth and call the baby for none |
| 0:54.0 | I know my shoulder blades are shattered wings that carry me home I said baby come on |
| 0:58.0 | Notice flesh is only time for every bit of this bone |
| 1:01.0 | Why don't you empty out your love for me and chisel the stone? |
| 1:03.0 | Visit Tim Black Command, it's a property loan |
| 1:06.0 | Because every blade I grass the earth, you know I actually don't |
| 1:09.0 | I am the I am, says Sam, am I? The universe, please infinity, you got one light |
| 1:14.0 | Ah, yeah, how you be close to love? |
| 1:19.0 | How you limit it all your sadness when you open it up? |
| 1:22.0 | How you make excuses for billion as you broken a book? |
| 1:24.0 | Sonny Nick is around me rolling up and smoking me up |
| 1:27.0 | Because, because we're in voice class |
| 1:30.0 | Everybody dies in love, everybody dies in love |
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