Noname balances the pitfalls and potential joy of dating, while acknowledging how difficult creating a project is.
On the 4th track from her debut project she remarks on wanting to create something special for family and friends:
This for my homies; my Umi say love…
At the same time, she wants “a...
[Background: "It was great, apparently, I've never been on live television before..."]
[Refrain: Noname]
Noname off the drugs, Noname quit the weed
Telefone delight, love is all I need
My honeybee red, black and green
Majestic queen
This for my homies; my umi say love
This for my homies; my umi say love
This for my homies; my umi say
[Verse 1: Noname]
Like, maybe I'ma miss you after autumn
And all of the fallen callers and ringers
When singers hittin my tele, and tele paging my beeper
The reefer got me like, "Woah, slow down."
I need a minute, for minute's sake, a dinner plate
A casanova with catalogs of his dinner dates
Make me feel special, Jay Electro-Soul
I need a nigga to follow me to the rabbit hole
And fall in where I fall in
I'm ballin', out my control
I'm ballin', out my control
[Pre-Hook: Xavier Omär]
You say you see a way that
I cannot see, then say that
I never knew it all
I'm just trying not to fall
And now I'm chasing patience
I need it for greatness
Look at this time I'm wasting
Mad at how it ended
Really, If I tell the truth about it
[Hook: Xavier Omär]
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
[Verse 2: Noname]
Everything is everything, a cigarette for wedding ring
And tell me that you love me and love me tomorrow
The matrimony catalyst for secondary
Get to know me in Chicago, how I go where you stay
Unorthodox paradox in a pair of Docs
With an overbite, oversight to a merry clock
Happy-go-lucky was the time, you and I
Happy-go-lucky was the time, do or die
You remind me to love myself for the principle
For the kid inside, 'til the end of time
Happy-go-lucky was the time...
Um... Okay
[Refrain: Noname]
Noname off the drugs, Noname quit the weed
Telefone delight, love is all I need
My honeybee red, black and green
Majestic queen
This for my homies; my umi say love
This for my homies; my umi say love
This for my homies; my umi say
[Pre-Hook: Xavier Omär]
You say you see a way that
I cannot see, then say that
I never knew it all
I'm just trying not to fall
And now I'm chasing patience
I need it for greatness
Look at this time I'm wasting
Mad at how it ended
Really, If I tell the truth about it
[Hook: Xavier Omär]
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
If it's not how I want it
It's just how I need it
All I Need was written by Saba & THEMPeople & Phoelix & Xavier Omär & Noname.
All I Need was produced by Phoelix & THEMPeople & Saba.
Noname released All I Need on Sun Jan 17 2016.
They are the same person, as explained on Xavier’s tumblr.
Saba: She didn’t like a lot of the music when it was just me, so anytime Noname did want something, even if I planned to use it for myself, I’d be like, ‘Take it, take it!’
She was doing it for herself… Noname just really wanted to put out a song. It only became a single for Telefone after the fact...