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“I believe in the necessity of revolutionary art, but I don’t think that, as artists, it’s helpful or even really productive for us to exclusively make that type of art.”

Dropped a new interview about digging more into her work of the library and what her aspirations are for her new project (bullet points under don't worry)

• wants to be more spirited and energetic in delivery in her new works and “I just want to make emotional music, how I used to.” says Saba's new album inspired her and she wants to move away from the “bitterness” she sees coursing through Sundial

• plans to move to Africa and is deciding between Kenya or Nigeria

• she enjoys fans seeing her in her element at the library because it emphasizes she's a regular person, wants to start employing paid staff with grant applications if they come through

• Acknowledges pretty much she was quite annoying on social media (“there were moments when I was quote-tweeting things and trying to dunk on people, which is not my personality at all,” she says. “And I just felt really nasty. I felt like I was becoming a mean person. I was like, ‘I gotta get off this platform, it’s literally ruining my personality.")

“I mean, who wants to sit and think about colonialism and slavery and Trump and all the genocides coexisting right now? It’s heavy,” she says. “And it’s a privilege not to have to think about it all the time, or to make my art all about that all the time. I do want to acknowledge that. But sometimes, when you’re going through something difficult, you don’t necessarily want to hear a rap version of your trauma. Maybe you want to hear a song that’s going to bring some levity and some light and some joy.”

Sounds like we getting Telefone vibes next album

Thank you for your write up ! Will read soon

Please move to Nigeria Noname!!

Just saw that.

She said something similar bout her music in the YNS interview. She feels like her albums sounded too much like her twitter.

Sundial still one of my favorite albums of the decade but I can see how that type of content being draining

that's why I'm saying if this is like Telefone 2.0 but with Sundial type of energy/confidence she really might drop her magnum opus

it's also funny cause my fav noname song of all time aint even political at all & comes from my least fav album of hers

She also said that she was "hiding" behind the instrumentals on room 25 and was doing the whole abstract raps thing to the point she barely knew what she was rapping about, which made her stripped the instrumentals back on sundial and be more intentional with her lyrics there.

If she takes that sundial approach and bring back the telefone/room 25 style instrumentals with different content then we got a classic

No Twitter, no need to change the music direction

Need to be moving Black people away from Twitter not keeping us on that platform.

Clearly pivoting here. she says Sundial was full of bitterness but that's not true its actually pretty balanced & everything she's mad about she has good reason to be mad about lol. I hope she doesnt lose that edge, even if she's more active than a lot of these niggas out here outside the music

Sundial was my favorite work of hers but her discography is flawless

A matured Telefone would be a craaazy

Shes one of the best rappers oat no bs

Unfortunately everyone s*** on her that era and it clearly really bothered her

That truly bothers me because it was a fantastic album.

much love to her

ehhhh you could argue joints like potential, toxic, balloons (which her last verse does kinda prelude this realization bout her music), namesake, and beauty supply have a bit of an "I'm irritated asf" energy to em.

But I also love that s***.

But also, I understand why as an artist it doesn't always feel good to have that be the source of your inspiration.

Niggas s*** on her because niggas hate black women who are outspoken, call it what it is. a lot of people said it was an AOTY, including me

Love noname

She also admitted Cole had a point + also admitted she went about things the wrong way on her social media presence especially on twitter.

I do agree alot of the hate her way woulda been there regardless if she was more diplomatic but as a fan who also thinks Sundial was AOTY (I think it was #2 in my rankings that year because kara jackson came out that year), she aint make it easy on herself all the time.

She came at J.Fold & niggas couldn't take it

That was my Pop Out Show

So excited for whatever she does next. Sundial was one of my fav projects of 2023

ok

Absolutely

I just need "Potentially" type energy for like 12+ tracks and I'm satisfied.

That s*** had ME wanting to punch a wall first time I heard that s*** like "TALK TO EM NONAME!"

Those drums bro

Whatever it is, we gon be there, queen.