Her stark words can puncture your heart, but the weightlessness of her flow and the glow of the production do their best to sweeten the bitterness. On “Casket Pretty,” she makes a confession: I am afraid of the dark, blue and the white / badges and pistols rejoice in the night. You can visualize her smile as she raps, but it’s also clear that she’s spitting to sting the ignorant and uninformed.
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At its core, Telefone is a conversation between Noname and anyone looking for a thread of logic to grasp onto during maddening times: part stifled rant, part friendly catch-up, part social commentary, and part sound advice.Īlongside her co-conspirators/executive producers Saba, Cam O’bi, and Phoelix, Noname has figured out how to administer a dose of reality without poisoning us with too much heaviness. There’s background harmonies that sound like New Age doo-wop, carefully orchestrated hand claps and finger snaps of every volume and variety, samples of baby coos, and ubiquitous, shimmering keys. Telefone ended up taking three years to make it to us, but the finished product is unlike anything else out.
She sounded like she had a million stories to tell, and I wanted to hear her tell them. Her voice was almost childlike in its pitch and inflections, and her delivery never felt settled, as if she was playing hopscotch in the spaces between the beat. I remember first hearing Noname, born Fatimah Warner, three years back on “Lost,” a quasi-love story about the intimacy of drug addiction on Chance the Rapper’s breakthrough mixtape, Acid Rap. Telefone is the 25-year-old Chicago rapper’s proper introduction, and it’s been a long time coming. "Good Ol' Boys (Theme from Dukes of Hazzard)"ģ4.Noname’s debut project opens with “Yesterday,” a song that rises like the sun. Know a song about jail or prison that should be on this playlist? Make a recommendation in the Comments Section below. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong served eight days in jail for a DUI convinction Johnny Cash served a three day suspended sentence for drug possession after returning from a trip from Mexico as a young man Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder spent the night in jail for public drunkenness and disturbing the peace George Michaels served four weeks in prison for DUI Earlier in his career, in the military he punched a superior officer and spent time in military prison. Johnny Paycheck shot a man in a bar and served less than two years in prison. Glen Campbell served 10 days in jail for DUI and leaving the scene of an accident
Rick James served one year in jail for draft evasion and three years in prison for kidnapping and torturing two women Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys punched a bar bouncer and went to jail for a few hours until he could be released on bail He also spent several hours in jail and released on $40 bail after publicly urinating on the monument to The Alamo while dressed in his wife's clothesĬountry singer David Allan Coe was in and out of jail since a juvenile and once killed a man in prison for making an unwelcome sexual advance
Ozzy Osbourne spent six weeks in jail for shoplifting as a teen. Justin Bieber served 24 hours in jail after being charged with DUI, resisting arrest, driving with an expired license, and underage drinkingĪs a teenager, Barry White stole $30,000 in Cadillac tires and spent 4 months in the slammer Vince Neil of Motley Crue spent 15 days in jail for vehiclular manslaughter and DUIīoy George of 1980s Culture Club fame served four months in jail for false imprisonment of an escort and promising to give the man what he deserved using whips and other devices
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Ike Turner, R&B singer and abusive ex-husband of Tina Turner, served 17 months in prison for drug offensesįormer rapper and current movie star and producer Mark Wahlberg spent 45 days in jail as a teenager after he beat a middle-aged Vietnamese man with a stick R&B singer Lauryn Hill spent three months in federal prison and did three months of home confinement for tax evasion No one said being a musician was easy.įunk icon James Brown spent six years in prison for aggravated assault and evading police in an interstate police chase Some of these folks were jailed on additional occasions not listed.