Noname is hitting the road.
In advance of her debut mixtape, Telefone, turning 10-years-old on July 31, the Chicago rapper announced her forthcoming 10-year anniversary tour.
“I hope you were there. I hope 10 years ago in some small corner of the world you heard the imagination of young folks from the city of Chicago,” she wrote alongside a flyer for the tour.
“Telefone was already breathing when I discovered it. It sat, quietly whispering to me between every blunt rotation outside Youmedia, after every conversation with Cam [O’bi] about the texture of sound, after I lived [long] enough to sing about it. Telefone was raised by a community,” she added.
She then thanked everyone who was involved, including Saba, Ravyn Lenae, Smino, Monte Booker, Raury, Xavier Omar, and theMIND. She also gave a shout-out to Chance the Rapper, who allowed her “to record during his personal sessions” when she was “broke.”
The Telefone Tour is set to kick off on Aug. 2 in Toronto, with stops in New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Seattle before wrapping Sept. 10 in Noname’s Chicago hometown.
Following Telefone, Noname released her debut album, Room 25, in 2018 and her sophomore studio album, Sundial, in 2023. Over the past few years, she’s been quiet on the music front, instead focusing on her organization, Noname Book Club, which promotes literature and provides free educational materials to marginalized communities.
