Noname's "Song 33" Speaks For Black Girls Who Matter And To The Men Who Ignore Them
essence.combookworm released the single Thursday. It is her first of the year. She dismisses the demon of patriarchy during the brief track, where she calls out hip-hop for being “quiet as a church mouse,” as Black women are being slaughtered at the hands of their men. “One girl missing another one go missing/One girl missing another,” she chants repeatedly during the one minute and ten second track. “Why Toyin body don’t embody all the life she wanted?/ A baby just 19/I know Dream all black/I seen her everything immortalized in tweets/ All caps,” she rapped referencing the death of Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau.https://t.co/NrDzSDQRaO pic.twitter.com/fQvtEQXZIDSalau is a Black Lives Matter activist who went missing after tweeting about her sexual assault..
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