And I appreciate her and others like her because they challenge my beliefs and I feel that in these times that’s important.” He closed out with a plea to “be gentle with each other.”Īround the end of May, Cole was spotted by a fan at a protest wearing a face mask. This is something Cole addressed in a tweet in the same thread: “I haven’t done a lot of reading and I don’t feel well equipped as a leader in these times. When you attacking the very same n-as that really do need That shit ain’t no reason to talk like you better than me “Snow on tha Bluff” also features Cole asking the subject of his song to adjust the way the message is being sent: Meanwhile a n-a like me just be rapping.”Īs Pitchfork points out, Noname apparently reacted to the song in a since-deleted tweet that echoed one of Cole’s lines in the song: “QUEEN TONE!!!!!!” 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. On Thursday morning, Cole explained himself further in a series of tweets that led off with, “I stand behind every word of the song that dropped last night.” He also shouted out Noname by name and encouraged people to follow her: “I love and honor her as a leader in these times. So when I see something that’s valid, I listenīut shit, it’s something about the queen tone that’s bothering meįans quickly made the connection between those words and Noname’s message. Now I ain’t no dummy to think I’m above criticism

Cole released a sparse new song called “Snow on tha Bluff.” It doesn’t take aim at the police, but shortly after its release, fans connected its words to Chicago rapper Noname, who had tweeted about “y’all favorite top selling rappers not even willing to put a tweet up” to support the demonstrations that had begun at the end of May, shortly after the killing of George Floyd.Ĭole seemingly addresses this message directly on “Snow on tha Bluff,” rapping, “She mad at the celebrities / Low-key I be thinking she talking about me,” and later: have released new songs that grapple with police brutality and racial injustice.

Over the past few weeks, as demonstrations in all 50 states and abroad have gone hand-in-hand with a slate of new protest music, artists like Denzel Curry, YG, and H.E.R.

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