Noname took to social media to speak out in defense of a woman who publicly accused Talib Kweli of harassment.
Last year, Maya A. Moody called out several rappers, including Kweli, for being married to light-skinned women. Moody believes their choices were down to colorism.
“Nah let’s have this convo today,” Kweli tweeted once he was alerted to Moody’s tweet. “Are we talking all of my relationships? My children’s mother as well? Or are you only talking about who you think I’m currently in a relationship right now? I mean, is any of this really any of your business?”
After weeks of alleged harassment, Twitter eventually suspended Kweli’s account, although he claimed that he had stepped away from the social media platform to focus on his Patreon.
However, a source from Twitter made the following statement to Jezebel:
“[Talib Kweli’s] account has been permanently suspended after repeated violations of the Twitter rules,” the spokesperson told the publication. “Twitter’s purpose is to serve the public conversation. Violence, harassment and other similar types of behavior discourage people from expressing themselves, and ultimately diminish the value of global public conversation. Our rules are to ensure all people can participate in the public conversation freely and safely.”
Moody tweeted as recently as this month about Kweli’s continued harassment. But it’s been going on for a long time.
“Praying for Megan amd all the Black womxn globally,” Noname wrote in July 2020. “Watching Black men joke about her shooting as a call to action to harm more Black women hurts in a way I’m not smart enough to articulate. And the silence from male rappers while Talib Kweli harassed Black women for weeks, disgusting.”
Almost a year later, Kweli is still seething over Noname’s summer 2020 post.
“Last year the rapper No Name compared me to Tory Lanez because she took the word of some stranger on the internet that I ‘harass black women nonstop.’ No Name is far from the only prominent person who fell for this … So many people in this culture were willing to completely throw me away on the lies of a stranger they never met, a stranger that has no reputation for adding anything at all to this culture,” he tweeted.
Noname refuted Kweli’s claims.
“lmao this is a lie. he was harassing a black woman online for like 3 weeks and myself and other women called that shit out. no one called him tory lanez. why are so many men this unwell ?” she responded. Of course, Kweli couldn’t let this one go either.
