Artist of the Week: 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.
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".
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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