The Chicago rapper and poet is among the greatest lyricists of her generation. In asking tough questions of the art she practices, her third album reveals a fearless and visionary performer.
is against sitting idle, and calls not just to hear its own voice, but to enter into conversation in the griot tradition of call and response.
Hip-hop has been effectively deradicalized by middle age, botched love and commercialism, to the extent that so-called"conscious rap" often sounds like a grift to feed a void in the market — the hungry ghost of authenticity. Plenty of the music is no longer a visceral and spirit-driven creative endeavor.
Her fearless merging of archetypes and yugas , of delights and devastations, is what makes her effortlessly visionary. She's not trying to be a martyr to unreasonable levels of decency in the face of adversaries, nor is she aimlessly skipping into combativeness for attention. You can feel her deliberating, even about how to follow the advice of Sun Ra — to make a mistake and do something right.
Meanwhile, unbothered and channeling the cools that Miles Davis and Betty Carter invented, Noname makes's central question and haunt the tension between actor and spectator that allows such unrelenting judgment of art in the first place."Who invented the voyeur" she interrogates. Verses go on to accuse the idle onlooker of entitlement without personal stakes.
Every epic requires a little intrigue and blasphemy, and as a subtle epic hero of this music, Noname is doing her job wellShe makes you think without being elitist, she rouses some to anger without any talk of violence. How many rappers can say the same, as the ticker on the genre approaches the past like a beggar for redemption? When a quiet redeemer comes with a brand new approach to time itself, it makes sense she would be a little ostracized.
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