Noname doubles down on Jay Electronica's antisemitic verse on her album: 'Your disappointment truly means absolutely nothing to me, and I say that with love.'
Acclaimed rapper Noname is refusing to apologize for including a verse from fellow emcee Jay Electronica that has been criticized for being antisemitic on her latest album,The verse appears on the song "Balloons," which Noname announced would be the album's lead single in July. That decision prompted some fans to question the inclusion of Electronica, who has been linked to antisemitic rhetoric in the past."Here's the truth.
Ignoring or ignorant to the fact that white supremacists are rampantly antisemitic and thus being anti-white supremacy would thus mean also being anti-antisemitism, Noname continued, "I'm not going to apologize for a verse I didn't write. I'm not going to apologize for including it on my album. If you feel like I'm wrong for including that's fair. Don't listen. Unfollow and support all the other amazing rappers putting out dope music.
Noname had previously defended the inclusion of Jay Electronica, who has links to Louis Farrakhan as a member of the Nation of Islam,by the Southern Poverty Law Center due in part to its "notorious antisemitism and homophobia." The Chicago rapper threatened to cancel her album's release amid the Jay Electronica backlash before deleting her Twitter account altogether.
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