The Chicago-based rapper implied that Cole was attempting to mask "patriarchy and gaslighting as constructive criticism."Ī follower pushed back on Chance's tweet, noting that he knows the artist is friends with Noname, but "c'mon bro." Shortly after Cole's statement, Chance the Rapper criticized the song for undermining Noname's work. (Expletives) whole discographies be about Black plight and they nowhere to be found." Many fans assumed his song to be aimed at Noname, who in a since-deleted tweet wrote in late May: "Poor Black folks all over the country are putting their bodies on the line in protest for our collective safety and y'all favorite top-selling rappers not even willing to put a tweet up. "I scrolled through her timeline in these wild times, and I started to read/She mad at these crackers, she mad at these capitalists, mad at these murder police/She mad at my (expletives), she mad at our ignorance, she wear her heart on her sleeve/She mad at the celebrities, low-key I be thinkin' she talkin' 'bout me" The single "Snow on the Bluff" centers on an unnamed female activist trying to educate people about police brutality and racism through social media, who's upset with the celebrities who don't speak up and people who aren't as "woke" as she is. And I appreciate her and others like her because they challenge my beliefs and I feel that in these times that’s important." I haven’t done a lot of reading and I don’t feel well equipped as a leader in these times. She has done and is doing the reading and the listening and the learning on the path that she truly believes is the correct one for our people. He continued: "Follow I love and honor her as a leader in these times. I accept all conversation and criticisms. That’s fine with me, it’s not my job to tell anybody what to think or feel about the work. "Some assume to know who the song is about. I stand behind every word of the song that dropped last night. Right or wrong I can’t say, but I can say it was honest," the rapper wrote. Cole took to Twitter Wednesday morning and defended "Snow on tha Bluff." He noted that although he's not confirming the song is about Warner, he encouraged people to follow her on social media. On Tuesday, the 35-year-old rapper dropped his first single of the year in response to the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation – but not everyone was a fan of the song.Īfter an onslaught of overnight criticism from fans who thought J. Cole took note Noname's track and shared the single to his Twitter page. When George was beggin' for his mother, saying he couldn't breathe He really 'bout to write about me when the world is in smokes? It's time to go to work, wow, look at him go Cole writing a song about her when there's so much else going on in the world. The one minute and nine second song addresses patriarchy, Oluwatoyin Salau (the 19-year-old activist who was murdered), George Floyd and trans women being killed. Cole surprised fans with a single seemingly taking aim at Noname (aka Fatimah Nyeema Warner), the 28-year-old released her own diss track, "Song 33," where she acknowledged the rapper's comments. Cole's "Snow on tha Bluff" the only way an artist would - with a song. Watch Video: Kelly Rowland: ‘Coffee’ song, video is my ode to black women
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