'Cause when we walk into heaven, nobody's name gon' exist
Noname quotes
- Quotes
- 18
- Lyrics
- 17
- Interviews
- 1
Noname's page is led by justice, on 4 of 18 lines, followed by pain and identity on 3 each. All but one are lyrics, most of them from the album Room 25: Self (four lines), Don't Forget About Me (four), Prayer Song, Regal and Montego Bae. The poetry is dense and political: a thesis on colonialism, a heaven where nobody's name will exist, and a line that Africa is always dying and never dead. Faith and craft each appear on 2 lines.
Africa's never dead, Africa's always dying
My pussy wrote a thesis on colonialism
In conversation with a marginal system in love with Jesus
And y'all still thought a bitch couldn't rap huh?
I used to have a name that look like butterflies and Hennessey
I'd trade it up for happiness but joyful don't remember me
The secret is I'm actually broken
But if I have to go, I pray my soul is still eternal
And my mama don't forget about me
You title email "Noname, thank you for your sweet Telefone
It saves lives"
The secret is I'm actually broken
All I am is everything and nothing at all
All I am is shoulder for your heart to lean on
All I am is love
What a pretty lady in the valley of the shadows
I'm thinking she lost a battle
I'm thinking she found the bottle
I tried to use it as a moment to draw attention back to the issues I care about but I didn’t have to respond
My ego got the best of me.
And yes and yes, I'm problematic too
No name for people to call small or colonize optimism
I seen a cell phone on the dash, could've sworn it's a gun
I ain't see a toddler in the back after firing seven shots
LA be bright but still a dark city
So come get your happy and your new titties
Dyin' on stolen land for a dollar like that ain't fucked up
Maybe this the album you listen to in your car
When you driving home late at night
My pussy teachin ninth-grade English
Heaven's only four-feet tall, I set my ringer to it
Fucked your rapper homie, now his ass is making better music