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But shortly after, she disavowed the song, calling it a distraction.
My ego got the best of me.
To Noname, politics doesnt have to mean self-seriousness.
Its at the center of her unaffected, chill delivery, often more like spoken word than rapping.
Both kinds of questions need answers, and shes not pretending she has all of them.
These n- - - -s put a flag up on it, all they do is consume.
None of the information is new, but her perspective remains singular.
Thats even especially, in fact true when shes cracking herself up, calling billionaires cokeheads.
Finding moments of escape from global injustice is a survival skill.
I know this is a song for overcoming, she finally concludes before running out of words.
Dance with me, she starts to repeat, the closest thing the song has to a hook.
Dance with me, I know Im free.
Years later, the scope of that search for freedom has only expanded.
