The paint on Tierra Whack's colorful world is slowly peeling back to reveal something much darker underneath on her full-length debut World Wide Whack.
The project arrives nearly six years after her ambitious visual album Whack World made waves. World Wide Whack, a fitting title to expand the Philly rapper's multi-sensory multiverse, was preceded by the bubbly single "Shower Song" and the introspective "27 Club." The name takes a cue from the infamous club that refers to multiple influential people who all died at 27, including Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain. Whack positions herself in the middle of it all, writing on Instagram, "I was in a dark place for a long time, and no one knew. I found my way out and made a choice to keep living."
World Wide Whack finds the 28-year-old once again reaching into her toolbelt (although a jumbled bag of tools and knickknacks sounds much more appropriate given Whack's aesthetic) to test the limits of her own creativity and vulnerability. While the aforementioned "Shower Song" centers around how good bathroom acoustics tend to be, "Two Night" digs deep into her father's absence from her life, and "Mood Swing" unpacks the growing feeling of anxiety she dealt with during the pandemic.
Unlike Whack World being comprised of 15 one-minute-long songs, the "Hungry Hippo" rapper pads out her new 37-minute album with everything weighing on her mind since she first popped into mainstream consciousness. It's got production from J Melodic, Kenete Simms, Nick Verruto, Brianna Farruggio, Boy Deco, and more.
Listen to World Wide Whack on Spotify or Apple Music, and catch a few of Tierra's lyric videos below.
