Noname threatens to retire Noname went on a tirade on social media starting on Thanksgiving evening. The talented yet overlooked young lyricist explained that she feels somewhat betrayed by a black audience that does not show up for her shows. Noname believes there is a shortage of black support and lashed out at herself for making music for a predominantly …

  Noname speaks her piece. Every year, the debate finds renewed life. Do The Grammys matter? Music criticism has evolved and opened the field to the point where the once-mighty ceremony no longer feels like the gold standard for quality. Case in point, the Grammy’s clockwork reticence to nominate hip-hop for Album Of The Year (annual reminder that OutKast was …

  The midwestern trio of Saba, Smino and Noname have been making music together for a while now, whether in the form of masterful features on each other’s singles, or hopping onstage for backup vocal assistance; at the beginning of the year, all three gave a memorable Tonight Show performance of “Ace,” from Noname’s excellent 2018 full-length Room 25 (which …