Noname has revealed the tracklist for her new album Sundial, which can be out on August 11. She beforehand introduced the title of the album again in April, and pegged it for a July launch date. It will likely be her follow-up to 2018’s Room 25, one of many greatest rap albums from that 12 months. Sundial is about to characteristic contributions from Jay Electronica, Frequent, billy woods, and extra.

Final week, she stated {that a} lead single, “Balloons,” would arrive tomorrow, and that it might characteristic Jay Electronica and Eryn Allen Kane. However when sharing the tracklist for Sundial earlier as we speak, she famous that she’d “quite share it with the remainder of the album.”

In some since-deleted tweets that she posted final week, Noname stated she was considering canceling the discharge of the album after receiving criticism over the Jay Electronica characteristic, partly resulting from his affiliation with the Nation Of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. “n***as legit rap about precise homicide and sexual assault that they commit in actual life and y’all can’t take a jay elect verse?” she wrote, in some tweets that had been captured by The Fader.

“been seeing a variety of critiques about my alternative to incorporate jay on my music,” Noname tweeted. “when you disagree together with his political and non secular beliefs that’s tremendous. however to check him to hitler? a person answerable for the extermination of tens of millions is wild as fuck to me. it’s really not that deep.” (Some folks tweeted at Noname referencing a line from a 2012 Jay Electronica monitor during which he rapped “Jaydolf Spitler, rap Hitler.”)

“okay this shit is blowing me now,” Noname later stated. “i’ve my critiques of the NOI myself however bro what?? nazis had been murdering folks. perhaps i purposely did a music with jay elect to alienate my white followers. perhaps i did it trigger he my favourite rapper, perhaps i’m black and obtained greater fish to fry. idk.”

A couple of hours later, she stated, “y’all carried out need the album. tremendous” after which: “oh the music fa sho popping out lol. the album is one other story. i’m good on the selective outrage. in any case hip hop is in an amazing place proper now. one other noname album ain’t actually crucial.”

Sundial is about to reach on August 11. Right here’s the tracklist: