After re-reading “How Noname Helped Me Make Sense of My Relationship With My Mother,” as well as listening to the podcast “‘Prison To Prison Pipeline’: Isis Tha Saviour” again, I found that both women featured in the reading and podcast found music to open up their worlds and be opened minded about certain topics.  The author of the reading, Donna-Claire Chesman, found that songs by a rapper named Noname allowed her to understand her mother and her relationship with her mother. For example, unlike how Noname’s “Hold Me Up” describes mothers, Chesman’s mother was not available emotionally. Noname’s song describes a mother as being there for you always, even when times are tough, but sometimes, “that ain’t good enough.” Chesman’s mother struggles to relate to her and openly wishes for her to be a good girl and marry a good man. However, Chesman’s mother also uplifts Chesman’s eccentric behavior and takes pride in her “nature and resolve”, which was inherited from her mother. Unlike how Noname portrays a matriarch in the song, Chesman feels that having a “hallmark” mother is unattainable. In the podcast, Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter aka Isis Tha Savior describes her experience with music, and the obstacles she faced. She learned about the music industry for African American women rappers, and how “Our physical bodies were products. And who was behind, you know, that industry? – old white men. Think about the music industry. There’s really, like, only five labels in the world. And who owns them? – old white men funding Black toxicity.”