Fatimah Nyeema Warner (born September 18, 1991), known professionally as Noname, is an American rapper. She began rapping and performing slam poetry in 2010, and gained wider recognition in 2013 for her appearance on the track "Lost" from Chance the Rapper's mixtape Acid Rap. She released her debut mixtape, Telefone, in 2016 to critical acclaim. Her debut album, Room 25, was released in 2018 and received further acclaim.
Noname is one third of the musical supergroup Ghetto Sage with rappers Smino and Saba. Since 2019, she has also run the Noname Book Club, which focuses on radical texts by authors of color.
Noname grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. She was raised by her grandparents until she was in middle school. Her grandparents were entrepreneurs, as was her mother, who owned an Afrocentric Bookstore. When she returned to live with her mother, she had a new sibling and she and her mother did not get along.
As a teenager, she listened to blues musicians Buddy Guy and Howlin' Wolf, and spent time in her mother's bookstore. She started writing poetry after taking a creative writing class in high school. As a teen, she spent time in the YOUMedia project, a space for young artists to create and network then based at the Harold Washington Library. There, she befriended local talents including Chance the Rapper. Experimental rapper LUCKI also attended the sessions.
Fatimah Nyeema Warner (born September 18, 1991), known professionally as Noname, is an American rapper. She began rapping and performing slam poetry in 2010, and gained wider recognition in 2013 for her appearance on the track "Lost" from Chance the Rapper's mixtape Acid Rap. She released her debut mixtape, Telefone, in 2016 to critical acclaim. Her debut album, Room 25, was released in 2018 and received further acclaim.
Noname is one third of the musical supergroup Ghetto Sage with rappers Smino and Saba. Since 2019, she has also run the Noname Book Club, which focuses on radical texts by authors of color.
Noname grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. She was raised by her grandparents until she was in middle school. Her grandparents were entrepreneurs, as was her mother, who owned an Afrocentric Bookstore. When she returned to live with her mother, she had a new sibling and she and her mother did not get along.
As a teenager, she listened to blues musicians Buddy Guy and Howlin' Wolf, and spent time in her mother's bookstore. She started writing poetry after taking a creative writing class in high school. As a teen, she spent time in the YOUMedia project, a space for young artists to create and network then based at the Harold Washington Library. There, she befriended local talents including Chance the Rapper. Experimental rapper LUCKI also attended the sessions.