#Fatimah Warner

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Rainforest by Noname [Name Your Price on Bandcamp]

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Noname – Brooklyn Steel – November 27, 2023

With just three remaining dates on the North American tour in support of her universally acclaimed second LP, Sundial, rapper-poet-producer Noname headlined Brooklyn Steel on Monday night following an opening set from Stout.

Photos courtesy of Edwina Hay | thisisnotaphotograph.com

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Noname and STOUT at Brooklyn Steel

After the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Chicago rapper Noname headlined Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY on Monday, November 27, 2023 for her tour in support of her latest album, Sundial. She was joined by STOUT on the tour who performed at 8:10PM. I arrived to the show not knowing anything at all about STOUT and thoroughly enjoyed her set. I overheard her tell someone that she was a church girl who listened to everything which completely explains how I heard Fela Kuti and a Nirvana cover by the same artist. In 2009, I saw Janelle Monáe for the first time, opening for of Montreal. At the time, I immediately fell in love with her performance but also wondered how on earth I hadn’t heard of her before that moment. I had the same feeling watching STOUT by the middle of her second song and highly recommend arriving early if you have a ticket to the remaining dates of the Sundial tour (the tour hits Boston tonight and wraps up in Toronto on the 29th). Oh, and fun fact: her 13-year-old son is the drummer in her band.

I covered Noname’s headlining set for Bowery Presents and the full gallery is now available on “The House List” here. For images of STOUT, please see the gallery on my website here.

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Aug 10, 2023 Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises namesake · Noname · Fatimah Warner Sundial

Itty bitty titty committee The world with me, your girl with me And I don't even really like pussy That's the homie Tony Island call Poseidon Cry me a river, you could cry me a metaphor A megaphone, screaming out Dream about revolution, air pollution Same solution, socialism They ain't really fucking with my niggas though

Off the grid, we just love the community garden Off the grid, you could be a martian 'round here Settle down here, we could love, love Drive up to the motherland and learn about what was And if the world don't budge, then eat me out, sweetie I wanna smile tonight, I only got one lap around the sun And he going down tonight, yeah, yeah So maybe I'm going down too Yeah, maybe I'm going down too

Yo, I never need no man I got a little bit of love and a couple of friends Picture me rolling up the bud in the south of Sudan Yo, I never need no, no, no

Yo, I never need no man I got a little bit of love and a couple of friends Picture me rolling up the bud in the south of Sudan Yo, I never need no, no, no

Noname, where she came? We could stand in the rain Maintain a good life, we could fry plantain Same day the airstrikes strike down Iran I ran into the house with a blunt in my hand, let's smoke I don't wanna see death no more, let's fight They got the devil hiding in plain sight That's you, that's me, the whole world is culpable Why complacency float the boat the most? I don't really get it, y'all ain't really with it

All that eat the rich, tax the rich, y'all ain't really about that shit Bitch, if you want some money, you can say that You deserve the payback 'cause niggas took everything Let's go get that and take it to the hood though Share it with community, we soldiers in plain clothes

Everybody got their role, don't be an opp Everybody got their roles, I'm a play mine Like Scooby-Doo in a haunted house I see the ghost that they talking 'bout, I see the signs Read in between the line at the crime scene I ain't fucking with the NFL or Jay-Z Propaganda for the military complex The same gun that shot Lil Terry Out west the same gun that shot some Samir in the West Bank We all think the Super Bowl's the best thing

Go, Rihanna, go Watch the fighter jet fly high War machine gets glamorized We play the game to pass the time Go, Beyoncé, go Watch the fighter jet fly high War machine gets glamorized We play the game to pass the time

Go, Kendrick, go Watch the fighter jet fly high War machine gets glamorized We play the game to pass the time Go, Noname, go Coachella stage got sanitized I said I wouldn't perform for them And somehow I still fell in line

Fuck, I never need no name I got a little bit of love and a memory lane Picture me rolling up the bud, I don't play them games Yo, I never need no, no, no Uh, I never need no name I got a little bit of love and a memory lane Picture me rolling up the bud, I don't play them games Yo, I never need no, no, no

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hold me down · Noname · Jimetta Rose · Voices of Creation · Fatimah Warner

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Noname: Extremely Talented Raps with Social Justice To Boot

Noname, born as Fatimah Nyeema Warner, is a rapper, poet, and activist from Chicago, Illinois that has been releasing music only since 2016 (with features going further back), but with social justice messages that stretch far beyond the years of her discography. Shortly after the release of her 2018 critically acclaimed album Room 25, Noname began organizing book club meetups and discussions surrounding radical literature, with each subsequent meetup ballooning more than the last. Her Instagram page, @nonamehiding, only contains 42 posts, with the bulk of recent posts surrounding her newly acclaimed album, Sundial. Therefore, I will be looking into the crux of her activist work within the multicultural reading sphere, the instagram page for the Noname Book Club, @nonamereads. https://www.instagram.com/nonamereads/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2019%2F02%2F10%2F692701998%2Fwe-need-to-exist-in-multitudes-noname-talks-artistic-independence-women-in-rap-a&psig=AOvVaw1mXg2KWlOeK3fkl3sF9Zr3&ust=1702688172561000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCPD55u-dkIMDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAI

Immediately into combing through the Book Club's Instagram page, the idea of accessibility becomes pretty quickly noticed and realized through the bulk of the picture posts being of chapter meetups all around America. This idea that a chapter of the Book Club can be anywhere, with any group of people, also immediately brought to mind the work and activism of Antonio López, with his work being focused on the bridging of education and educational media with underserved youth. Even as López notes that the article's headline and focus is on Native Americans receiving this pedagogy, he also writes that the focus of providing access to media technology is "...not just a Native American issue, but one facing our broader society...it infects the entire grid." (111). The act and work of expanding radical literature to all communities, especially underserved ones, remains a critical goal for the Noname Book Club.

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Pictured: Noname Book Club Columbus chapter meetup, 12/2/23

López continues with quoting Marshall McLuhan criticizing education through a "rear-view mirror" lens, that we tend to see pedagogy in the present through methods of the past that aren't effective for the current media landscape (113). López continues with, "...the trend toward standardized testing...is very much a rear-view -mirror orientation-it tests rote knowledge, and lacks a rubric for other types of learners..." (113). This is where I believe the Noname Book Club begins to take the current shape of pedagogy; while the idea and practice of book clubs is nothing new, the way in which Instagram and social media is used by Noname and her fellow organizers is up to the current trend for learning and finding out about informative, left-field literature.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aihr.com%2Fblog%2Flearning-vs-training%2F&psig=AOvVaw1WHFFceH0mGPSfgYlHE6YM&ust=1702688314856000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBIQjRxqFwoTCMihhbuekIMDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

The use of social media, as the Noname Book Club has done since its inception, is not just limited to the younger generation even if they are the primary target group. Despite the idea of a newer way of pedagogy based upon the current climate of interaction in social media, Chela Sandoval and Guisela Latorre write of Judy Baca's digital artwork in collaboration with youth of color. They write of the current atmosphere too, but add that, "youth-identified cultural production is not necessarily a terrain restricted to adolescents and young adults." (Sandoval and Latorre 85). Plenty of speakers that do events for the Noname Book Club are well outside of the youth culture and generation, but see the opportunity and potential of digital activist work to reach a broader audience.

The Noname Book Club boasts about 152,000 followers on Instagram, which accounts for about 5% of Chicago's population if it were that localized. But it isn't, because the goal wasn't just to reach the youth in Chicago (although Noname herself maintains an important stake in the beloved Windy City), it was to reach engaged users of social media for the purpose of disseminating thought-provoking literature. For its size, it doesn't seem like a lot considering that they have roughly a third of the followers of Noname's personal account. Again, though, the Noname Book Club is clearly making a mark on the digital landscape within physical cities. As chapter meetups become more commonplace and with the constant rotation of radical literature, Noname has made an indelible mark on how we interact with and learn from digital media.

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Pictured: Noname Book Club Boston chapter meetup, 12/1/23

Citations:

López, Antonio. “Circling the Cross: Bridging Native America, Education, and Digital Media.” Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media., 2008, pp. 109-126. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1162/dmal.9780262550673.109.

Sandoval, Chela, and Guisela Latorre. “Chicana/o Artivism: Judy Baca’s Digital Work with Youth of Color." Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media. Edited by Anna Everett. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008. 81–108. doi: 10.1162/dmal.9780262550673.081

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Noname ~ feb. 9th, 2015.

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Chicago Rapper Noname Launches Book Club Celebrating Writers of Color

Chicago Rapper Noname Launches Book Club Celebrating Writers of Color

Chicago rapper Fatimah Nyeema Warner, better known as “Noname,” continues to make her hometown proud.

More recently, the 27-year-old musician announced that she is launching a new book club.

Entitled “Noname’s Book Club,” the group will “highlight progressive work from writers of color and writers within the LGBTQ community.” It’s safe to say that a love for reading runs in the family. According…

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Montago Bae by Noname (featuring Ravyn Lenae) from the album Room 25

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Noname Is Down-to-Earth at Brooklyn Steel on Saturday Night

Noname – Brooklyn Steel – January 5, 2019

There’s no wall that separates Noname from her fans, metaphorical or otherwise. She’s not a performer who puts herself on a pedestal. Even onstage before a huge backing band, an impressive set of backstage lights, a huge blinking neon sign that reads ROOM 25 (the name of her much-acclaimed debut album), Noname can’t help but remain her humble self. “What the fuck!” she exclaimed upon seeing the sold-out audience before her at Brooklyn Steel as the house lights went on for the first time on Saturday night. “There’s so many people here!”

Noname’s a rapper known for her low-key, understated delivery. She shares in style that same Midwestern earnestness you’ll find in other Chicago rappers like Chance the Rapper and Saba. But there’s also something unique to who she is that makes her come off extremely likable. “I’m being supervulnerable here in front of thousands of people right now,” she said after taking a second stab at a verse. No one seemed to mind—it’s easy to root for someone so self-deprecating. “I apologize for my awkwardness and lack of rhythm,” she joked after another one of her songs. “I promise I’m having fun up here. I’m just awkward and don’t know what to do with myself.” When someone shouted out love for her hair, she replied, “Yeah, I spent a lot more money on my wig this time around!” 

Noname’s voice started to go toward the end of the set, apparently battling tonsillitis. Consider this further proof that she’s “one of us” as everyone and their brother seem to have some sort of cold right now. But she still came back for an encore, an a cappella version of “No Name,” Room 25’s final track, an appropriately intimate conclusion and a glimpse into how things all began for her. She dabbled in slam poetry before rapping, and this just-vocals version gave the audience an honest feel for her wordsmith-ing superpowers. “My pussy wrote a thesis on colonialism” —a line in “Self”—is probably the best rap lyric written last year, and just about everyone in the room joined in for it when Noname opened the show with the tune (it’s a funny thing to witness pasty Brooklyn white boys shout). These past few years have been a rocket ride for her, but it feels like this is all just the beginning for the performer. And no matter where the rocket ride takes her career next, you can rely on Noname to stay down-to-earth. —Dan Rickershauser | @D4nRicks

Photos courtesy of Andrew Pintado | www.drewmartinphoto.com

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seventeen moments and cloudy daze on my snap ~ mysterious aberration, illuminated with the trap. 🦋🖤

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fatimah warner

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in all of rap.

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On August 23rd 2017 » By Amileah Sutliff I used to have a name that look like butterflies and Hennessy / I’d trade it in for happiness, but joyful don’t remember me. Every year, contentment, for so many, becomes more of a scarcity, a tradeoff. So you make half-empty attempts to find it. As you give up innocence— like a song you used to love—you ache for what it used to be, but strained through our own experiences, our own memories, we hear pain. You want those sounds to take care of you, to set you free— and oh boy, they’re trying their best—but they’re tainted with flickers of unabashed reality. This is the ebb and flow inside of each track on Telefone. The way a good parent knows the value of warm, difficult honesty instead of sugar-coating, Noname knows how to use dark truths as an instrument for germination. Chronicling the world around her on the Southside of Chicago into a string of thoughts translated via arresting bars, 25-year-old Fatimah Nyeema Warner weaves bleeding under healing, warmth over ice, fear under embrace. Released just over a year ago and forever maintaining its relevance, Telefone takes pieces of our world that should be so catastrophically at odds with each other, greases them with honesty and slides them snugly together to form an image of her reality. “It’s a weird thing to do,” she told Clashmagazine. “But I just find melancholy in music that makes me happy because I listen to it so much.” Upon first listen, Telefone sounds like unadulterated sunny warmth: the backbone of muted synth lullabies, the coat of modern doo-wop harmonies, the softly textured drums, the human snaps, the recordings of baby coos and giggles. Upon first listen, everything’s a prayer: her grandma’s smile, Henny in cup, ice cream on her porch, the light inside herself, the freedom of saying “fuck it.” Its warmth can be attributed to beyond-skilled writing and recording by Noname and collaborators Saba, Cam O’bi and Phoelix. Telefone was recorded in two Los Angeles Airbnbs-turned-studios over a single summer month. But its sunniness also serves a deliberate function: guiding the listener into tending to the darkness. Telefone says to look at all this beauty, look at the joy, look at this rhythm, look at the humanity. Now look what they’ve done to it. Ain’t no one safe in the happy city / I hope you make it home / I hope to god that my telly don’t ring/ … Too many babies in suits Once you fall into its embrace, you hear its heartbeat—its radical, carefree, young blackness—strained through death, through poverty, through violence. But instead of dampening the joy, it elevates its importance, and prays for its protection. Its light is a vehicle to force you to confront the dark; it’s a lens reframe it. “Casket Pretty” is abundant with joyful, distant infant sounds in the beat, as it materializes a narrative of police violence. It’s heart-breaking. She drops real, unnecessary death on top of innocence as “badges and pistols rejoice in the night” in the face of fallen black bodies. The joy, again, balanced against darkness as an illustrator, hopefully a motivator. I hope that darkness keep you well In “Yesterday,” she grapples with the passing of loved ones with memories, how she “check[s her] Twitter page for something Holier than black death”. Even the warm words of her departed grandma serve as a larger warning, a signal of oppressive state forces: “Don’t grow up too soon / Don’t blow the candles out / Don’t let them cops get you.” But she returns to the vivid memories of their smiles for solace. Her ability to reframe our contextual thinking of darkness shines on “Bye Bye Baby”—the pinnacle of audible warmth and joy, and also about abortion. Noname told Fader, “I feel like whenever I hear people talking about abortion, they typically take the love out of it, as if it can never be a loving act — as if it’s only done out of hate or desperation.” Telefone teaches us that—instead of being a scarcity, a tradeoff—darkness and love can exist alongside each other, and they often do. Nobody understands my songs / Aloe vera sentences to heal the scars Although frequently referred to as a poet, on Telefone Noname is clearly first and foremost a rapper. She’s made this very clear. Perhaps the tendency to assign her a “poet” label lies in her frequent exchange for rap’s braggadocious wordplay for subtle play within the words themselves. The intricate exchange of sounds in every single line alone make this album rewarding after an infinite number of listens. Her roots are in poetry and the poetic devices are her weapon, but—as she told Vulture—she’s “rapping [her] ass off” and her unmatched ability to do so in a way no one’s ever really mastered gives her insurmountable power as a rapper. She seems immune to—even repellant of—fakeness in any sense. Her tracks are genuine understanding upon mind-blowing (but somehow, still humble) finesse, coincidentally making her record among the most quietly powerful to come out in the last five years. Scars are a reminder of pain, as much as a reminder of recovery. Noname made a healing embrace for those who need to be lifted out of the continuing scars of oppression in their daily lives, and an urgent alarm at the systematic loss of beautiful human lives for those with the privilege to ignore it. So very little is capable of retaining both the dark truth of the world and honest beauty it’s capable of creating, but Telefone will give it to you time and time again, without fail. Add Rap & Hip-Hop to my membershipNotify me when Rap & Hip-Hop becomes available to the public AMILEAH SUTLIFF Amileah Sutliff is a former teen and current Madison-based Editorial Assistant for Vinyl Me, Please. She really wants to pet your dog but is too nervous to ask. © 2017 Offbeat Ventures, LLC Focus Retriever

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Artist of the Week: Noname

CREDIT: Bryan Lamb

NONAME

Fatimah Nyeema Warner, better known as Noname is a 28-year-old American hip hop recording artist and mint music’s artist of the week. Born on September 18th, 1991 Noname is a rapper, poet and record producer. Always connected to music in her early life Fatimah listened to blues musicians Buddy Guy and Howllin Wolf. She started writing poetry and creative writing in high school. During this time, she was also involved in the YOUMedia Project. This organization enables young artists to create music and network. Through her affiliation with YOUMedia she met Chance the Rapper.

Career

Noname has been rapping and performing slam poetry in Chicago since 2010. She placed third in Chicago’s annual Louder than a Bomb competition. This eventually led her to start freestyle rapper and collaborating with her friends and local artists Chance the Rapper, Saba, Mich Jenkins, and Ramaj Eroc (slate.com).

In 2013 she began gaining wider recognition through her appearance on the track “Lost” from Chance the Rapper’s mixtape Acid Rap. Following this appearance, she was featured on Mich Jenkins’ mixtape The Water, on the track “Comfortable”. On July 31’s 2016 she released her first mixtape Telephone. Through this album, she introduced herself to the world as a “conscious female rapper”. Speaking on black women’s pain and highlighting the struggle of growing up in Chicago. Rolling Stone dubbed the album 2016’s “most thought-provoking hip-hop”.  

In August 2018 Noname announced her second album Room 25’s release in fall 2019. In comparison to Telephone, she said that "Telephone was a very PG record because I was very PG. I just hadn't had sex.” (The Fader).  In this interview for Fader, she said that she hoped that “this project will show some of those people who think that I am this very, like, conscious female rapper that I’m just as regular and normal as everybody”.  At the release of Room 25 on September 14th, 2018 the album received universal acclaim from music critics. Rolling Stone declared Noname as "One of the Best Rappers Alive" and included her on a list of "Artists You Need to Know".

Now:

           On May 25th, 2019 Noname announced her second studio album will be titled Factory Baby. While the date for the release of the album isn’t know, it is highly anticipated and will surely once again shake the music industry.

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Citation: 

Eferighe, Joshua, et al. “Who Is Noname? The Recluse Rapper with the Most Anticipated Debut Album of 2018.” Kulture Hub, 17 Sept. 2018, kulturehub.com/noname-rapper-chicago/.

Kim, Michelle, et al. “Noname.” Pitchfork, pitchfork.com/artists/33139-noname/.

“Noname (Rapper).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 3 Feb. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noname_(rapper).