“Noname, the hypnotic rapper from Chicago, is among the best young wordsmiths working today,” Doreen St. Félix writes. “The twenty-six-year-old is adept at the technical aspects of verse construction, yes, but she displays preternatural judgment when practicing the hazier, more alchemical art of organizing words in arrangements previously unseen, arrangements that make the hairs on your arms stand up. Her affect is cool—she is sometimes mischaracterized as “sweet”—but she is forging brief and bright storms.”
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