Weeks after changing her rap name, Noname dropped another single from her mixtape, Telefone. “Freedom Interlude” is a song unbridled by categorisation, as Noname explores a number of different subjects whilst disregarding thematic cohesion.
The song does, however, follow a loose narrative about a w...
[Intro: Noname]
I thought I was gon' write a rap
I thought I was gon'...
[Verse 1: Noname]
I thought I was gon' write a rap, but this be baby miracle
Virginity in carat gold, alphabet in the cereal
I'll forget why I'm here alone, sentiment for a different song
Let's get back to IG, up in the DM, I think he like me
Asiatic Black man, affinity with lap dance
The walls is caving, the laws is changing
Bill Cosby ain't the god we made him, they all forgave him
I think I wrote a song about confusion and perception
Messages in bottles, disillusion on the guest list
You said plus-one, so where your plus-one at?
I hope he find his way to Arizona now
I hope he find Fatimah and she hold him down
[Verse 2: Noname]
What a pretty lady in the valley of the shadows
I'm thinking she lost a battle
I'm thinking she found the bottle
Blueberry bubblegum bassinet in my hideout
Baby said turn the lights low, mama said go to bed now
I had a dream I rocked my baby fast asleep
Count the toes, they're all there, kiss the cheek
I think this is a song about redemption
Or a mother's intuition
How my kitchen sounds like church bells
Why they sell me, my dollar, and my dream?
White picket fence, crop of the cream
I know this is a song for overcoming
And me coming, and me running out of ways to... Uh...
[Refrain: Noname]
Dance with me, dance with me
Dance with me, dance with me
Dance with me, dance with me
Dance with me, I know I'm free
Dance with me, I know I'm free
[Outro]
Peter Rodis: Well, what's free to you?
Nina Simone: What's free to me? Same thing it is to you, you tell me!
Peter Rodis: No, you tell me!
Nina Simone: Just a feeling... It's just a feeling. It's like, how do you tell somebody how it feels to be in love? How are you going to tell anybody who has not been in love how it feels to be in love? You cannot do it to save your life. You can describe things, but you can't tell them. But you know it when it happens. That's what I mean by "free." I had a couple times on stage when I really felt free... Ain't that something else?! That's really something else! I'll tell you what freedom is to me: No fear!
Freedom Interlude was written by Noname.
Noname released Freedom Interlude on Sun Jul 31 2016.
Phoelix: That was one of those crazy times when me and Saba were on a hot streak… Everything was coming out incredible.
Saba: We would be working on something, and Noname would have her headphones on writing to something else. Then we started making ‘Freedom.’ She put her headphones down and came t...