Noname - Song 33

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🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Noname - "Song 33," a 2020 self-released single.

With her first single of 2020, Chicago artist Noname works with producer Madlib to craft a track referencing the murder of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter activist Oluwatoyin Salau, and to, well, call out fellow rapper J. Cole, whose own single “Snow on Tha Bluff” seemed to criticize her social media presence.

"i've been thinking a lot about it and i am not proud of myself for responding with song 33," she tweeted. "i tried to use it as a moment to draw attention back to the issues i care about but i didn't have to respond. my ego got the best of me. i apologize for any further distraction this caused."

She added, "madlib killed that beat and i see there’s a lot of people that resonate with the words so i’m leaving it up but i’ll be donating my portion of the songs earnings to various mutual aid funds. black radical unity."

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0:00.0	Oh, I have ambitions. Dreams. But dreams don't come cheap.
0:04.0	I saw a demon on my shoulder is looking like patriarchy like scrubbing blood off the ceiling and
0:08.2	bleaching another carpet. How my house go on it?
0:10.7	While Toyin body don't embody all the life she wanted the baby just 19 I know I dream all black
0:15.9	I seen not everything immortalizing tweets all caps they said they found her dead
0:20.7	One girl missing another one girl missing one girl missing one girl missing another one go missing one girl missing another but
0:25.1	Then the bag quiet as a church mouse basement studio when duty calls to get the verse out
0:30.1	I guess the ego hurt now It's time to go to work.
0:33.0	Look at him go.
0:34.0	He really doubts to write about me when a world is in smokes,
0:37.0	on his people and trees,
0:38.0	when George was begging for his mother saying he couldn't breathe,
0:41.0	he thought to write about me.
0:42.0	One girl missing another one, go missing.
0:45.0	One girl missing another one.
0:47.0	Yeah, but little did I know all my reading would be
0:50.0	a botherous trans woman being murdered
0:52.0	and this is all he can offer, and this is all
0:53.9	y'all receive, distract you from the convovelin' organizers, they talk and abolishing the police,
0:58.7	and it's a new world order.
1:00.4	We democratize an Amazon, we're firing down borders.
1:03.0	This is a new Vanguard.
	...

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