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Noname

namesake

Release date: 10th August 2023

From Sundial
Track 6
2:58
Hip-HopMusicHip-Hop/RapAlternative Rap
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About This Track

'namesake' by Noname is a 2023 hip-hop track from the album 'Sundial'. The lyrics sound abrasive and self-aware, throwing out rapid-fire lines about status and belonging, petty conflict, and a wide, restless sweep from sex talk to political dreaming. They also pivot into environmental concerns, with revolution and air pollution placed alongside socialism, and the voice keeps changing attitude mid-breath, as if the argument is part of the method. One moment sets up an almost comic committee of tiny factions, the next turns the rhetoric outward, and by the end it feels like the speaker is trying to out-talk both the world and their own contradictions.

"namesake" is a track by Noname, from the album Sundial, released 10th August 2023. The track is 2:58 long. It's filed under Hip-Hop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Noname.

About the Artist

Noname

Noname

Lyrics

namesake

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, screamin' out
Dream about revolution, air pollution
Same solution, socialism
They ain't really fuckin' 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
Chopper 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 goin' down tonight, yeah, yeah
So maybe I'm goin' down too
Yeah, maybe I'm goin' down too
Yo, I never need no man
I got a little bit of love and a couple of friends
Picture me rollin' 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 rollin' 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 hidin' 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'ma play mine
Like Scooby-Doo in a haunted house
I see the ghost that they talkin' 'bout, I see the signs
Read in between the line at the crime scene
I ain't fuckin' 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 Superbowl'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 rollin' 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 rollin' up the bud, I don't play them games
Yo, I never need no, no, no

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Track details

From Sundial

2:582023
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Album
Sundial
Sundial
Noname
11th August 2023
Track number
6
Release year
2023
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    2:21
  3. 3balloons (feat. Jay Electronica & Eryn Allen Kane)
    3:45
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  • Credits

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    Noname has a tour of the UK and Europe booked in for early next year
    News

    Noname has a tour of the UK and Europe booked in for early next year

    The dates are in support of her new album 'Sundial'.

    27 Sept 2023 • 12:51 pm
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    Noname has shared a release date and tracklisting for her new album 'Sundial'

    The full-length is set to arrive on 11th August.

    20 Jul 2023 • 6:21 pm