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NoName’s ‘Song 33’ Directly Addresses J. Cole: ‘I Guess the Ego Hurt Now’

NoName’s ‘Song 33’ Directly Addresses J. Cole: ‘I Guess the Ego Hurt Now’

NoName's 'Song 33' Directly Addresses J. Cole: 'I Guess the Ego Hurt Now'

NoName broke her silence about the J. Cole controversy in a minute-long Madlib-produced “Song 33.”

“One girl missin’, another go missin’ / One girl missin’, another,” she raps, commenting lyrically on the lack of noteworthy entertainers stepping up on behalf of Breonna Taylor, Oluwatoyin Salau, and all the other young, Black women who have been killed or abused in recent weeks. “But n****s act quiet as a church mouse,” she accuses, “In the studio when duty calls to get the verse / I guess the ego hurt now.”

The Chicago emcee took a page out of Cole’s book and didn’t reveal the subject of this epic read, but it was clear that the Forest Hill Drive rapper was the target. “He really ’bout to write about me when the world is in smokes / There’s people in trees when George was beggin’ for his mother / Saying he couldn’t breathe, you thought to write about me?”

J. Cole confirmed that his song “Snow on the Bluff” was about NoName in a series of tweets. “Follow
@noname. I love and honor her 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. Meanwhile a nigga like me just be rapping.”

He continued, “I haven’t done a lot of reading and I don’t feel well equipped as a leader in these times. But I do a lot of thinking. And I appreciate her and others like her because they challenge my beliefs and I feel that in these times that’s important.”

Cole even reappeared on Twitter to promote the femcee’s new song.

Check out the song below:

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