Noname (rapper)

Noname
Noname onstage smiling, holding a microphone
Noname performing in 2017
Background information
Birth nameFatimah Nyeema Warner
Born (1991-09-18) September 18, 1991 (age 33)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Rapper
  • songwriter
  • poet
Years active2010–present
Member ofGhetto Sage

Fatimah Nyeema Warner (born September 18, 1991), known professionally as Noname, is an American rapper. She began rapping and performing slam poetry in 2010, and gained wider recognition in 2013 for her appearance on the track "Lost" from Chance the Rapper's mixtape Acid Rap.[1] She released her debut mixtape, Telefone, in 2016 to critical acclaim.[2][3] Her debut album, Room 25, was released in 2018 and received further acclaim.

Noname is one third of the musical supergroup Ghetto Sage[4] with rappers Smino and Saba. Since 2019, she has also run the Noname Book Club, which focuses on radical texts by authors of color.[5][6]

  1. ^ "10 New Artists You Need to Know: September 2016". Rolling Stone. September 14, 2016. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
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  4. ^ Holmes, Charles (October 17, 2019). "Are Supergroups Terrible? Usually. Is Ghetto Sage's "Häagen Dazs" Pretty Good? Yes". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  5. ^ Stevenson, Iman (July 29, 2020). "The Black Book Club Takes It to the Next Level". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 5, 2020.
  6. ^ Noname Book Club [@NonameBooks] (July 8, 2020). "Don't ever worry about "keeping up". We like to think of ourselves as a resource providing a radical curated book list. If you can read along that's great but it's not mandatory Green heart" (Tweet). Archived from the original on July 8, 2020. Retrieved April 6, 2021 – via Twitter.