Noname has issued a response to J. Cole’s “Snow on Tha Bluff” with the new track, “Song 33,” produced by Madlib. The Chicago native debuted the song on Thursday (June 18) where she questions why Cole called her out in wake of more pressing issues like the murder of 19-year-old activist Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau.
“I saw a demon on my shoulder,” she begins. “It’s looking like patriarchy. Like scrubbing blood off the ceiling and bleaching another carpet how my house get haunted? Why Toyin body don’t embody all the life she wanted? A baby just 19, I know Dream all black. I seen her everything immortalized in tweets. All cops, they say they found her dead.
“One girl missing another on go missing. One girl missing another. But naggers in the back quiet as a church mouse, basement studio when duty calls to get the verse out. I guess the ego hurt now. It’s time to go to work. Wow. Look at him go. He really bout to write about me when the world is in smokes? When it’s people in trees? When George begging for his mother saying he couldn’t breathe, you thought to write about me?”
Cole’s surprise release drew mixed reviews, including criticism from Chance the Rapper and Earl Sweatshirt. The North Carolina rapper took to Twitter the following day to reaffirm,” I stand behind every word of the song.” He also encouraged his fans to follow Noname on Twitter.
Stream “Song 33” and read the lyrics below.
— Noname (@noname) June 18, 2020
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— Noname (@noname) June 18, 2020
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