Acclaimed political rapper and activist Noname, whose real name is Fatimah Warner, has addressed the controversial Jay Electronica verse on her new song “Balloons': “I’m not going to apologize for a verse I didn’t write.'
. Electronica, who’s a longtime member of the Nation of Islam, gives the controversial activist a shoutout in his verse on “Balloons,” which fans finally heard last week.
“If anybody asks, tell ’em Farrakhan sent me,” the 46-year-old New Orleans native raps on the Noname song. Earlier in the verse, he infers that the war on Ukraine is a “hoax,” calling the nation’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “joke.” Another bar invokes an antisemitic conspiracy theory about the Rothschild family’s control of global wealth: “Saw the Roth family in half to get my clout back.
To many of Noname’s fans, the collaboration seemed entirely out of touch with her socially conscious brand. In 2018, the 31-year-old was called out on Twitter forwhich prompted her to do her own research on the subject—to the point where she currently identifies as a communist. Since making that radical pivot, she’s been particularly critical of artists like Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and other high-profile figures in Black music who promote the notion of “Black capitalism.
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