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TiaCorine

TiaCorine

TiaCorine is a rap phenomenon, teleporting herself far outside the terrestrial confines of the genre’s boundaries to form her own galaxy. The North Carolina artist spits impressive bars with ease, yet she’s far from a traditional rapper. A sonic shapeshifter, TiaCorine stands out among the pack with her vocal elasticity, magnetic lyricism, and otherworldly personality. She’s drawn fans, peers, and critics alike to her blazing light — scoring an XXL Freshman nod amid copious press love; becoming a staple at festivals like Dreamville, Rolling Loud, and Coachella; earning cosigns from Drake and the late, great Gangsta Boo; and dropping viral hits like her signature flex, “FreakyT,” which has over 50 million streams on Spotify alone. “It's a bigger thing than just making hits,” says TiaCorine. “This is my destiny.” Her indomitable self-assurance comprises the molten core of her strikingly bold, genre-bounding, guest-packed second album, CORINIAN. The new set is the culmination of a trilogy following her I Can't Wait LP and Almost There EP. “If you pay attention to the artwork of the projects, you can see a pink aura in the background,” she says. Indeed, what looks like a futuristic city looms on the horizon, getting closer with each release. “That place is everything Tia wanted to be. Now I’m here. My new-self killed my old-self. There’s no fear. There’s no doubt. There’s no second-guessing. I’ve reached my final form.” CORINIAN’s cover shows a fuchsia, alien version of TiaCorine seconds away from hatching out of a levitating bubble. It’s a worthy metaphor. Assisted by ace producers ranging from Kenny Beats to Hit-Boy, she explodes into new territory that’s somehow both her most experimental yet and her most welcoming, warping and inverting more styles than ever before. She’s also joined by a wild array of rap risk-takers, including Saweetie, J.I.D., NLE Choppa, Flo Milli, Smino, Wiz Khalifa, and SoundCloud OG Pouya. The audacious star who coined “anime trap” as her sound is still there, but she also puts her own gravitational spin on modern R&B (“Pretty”), hard-hitting bilingual reggaeton (“La La La”), swaggering .Paak-style funk-rap (“Was Hannin”), darkly driving post-punk (“Buttercup”), ballroom dance culture (“Ate”), and ’80s Freestyle music (“Lotion”). TiaCorine’s worlds-conquering journey started in the third grade, growing up in Winston-Salem. “I remember just like it was yesterday,” she recalls. “I did a few talent shows back then. My dad and I were on the way to one, and I had a That’s So Raven moment where I saw my future self, doing what I’m doing now. It hit me like lightning.” Already a vocalist, young Tia began learning flute and piano, while absorbing different strains of music from everyone in her household. After developing a one-of-one style, Tia scored her first viral success in college with 2018’s “Lotto.” Her growing responsibilities as a new mother, student, and shift-worker at a chicken joint almost led her to abandon her vision, but after a year-long recording drought, a friend urged her to get back in the studio: “It's like I woke up from a bad dream: ‘I remember who I am now.’” She signed a record deal within months, leading to a string of releases that locked her in as “one to watch,” including 2022’s I Can’t Wait, led by the breakout “FreakyT,” which dominated the Urban Mainstream and Billboard Hip Hop/R&B charts, got a Latto remix, and became Gold-certified. In 2024, the equally vivid and gritty Almost There (her fourth EP) marked an expansion of TiaCorine’s reach and creativity, but CORINIAN leaps light years ahead and the shift is evident in every detail, down to her delivery. On the adorably aggressive “Fall in Love,” TiaCorine comes at romance with the same intent and intensity that she brings to verses tearing down rivals. On the lead single “Ironic,” which got a trippy Lyrical Lemonade music video, she effortlessly rides Kenny’s goopy synths, firing off flex after flex: “Designer drip, Prada pimp, they look forward to my fit / I let you ride that once / But, Michael Jackson, this is it.” She practically shouts her way through the booming “Backyard,” a domineering complement to J.I.D.’s slippery delivery. With CORINIAN, TiaCorine doesn’t just invite listeners to join her on an interplanetary tour of her ever-expanding universe — she demands we suit up and get on board. With every release, she’s continued to evolve as both an artist and a woman, soaring ever closer to the destination that she’s now reached. “Music was always leading me to this moment. I’ve always had people gravitate to my orbit, and I’ve known this was bigger than me. I'm supposed to touch people,” she says. “You can feel my energy in the music, making you feel good. That's my purpose.”

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TiaCorine

TiaCorine is a rap phenomenon, teleporting herself far outside the terrestrial confines of the genre’s boundaries to form her own galaxy. The North Carolina artist spits impressive bars with ease, yet she’s far from a traditional rapper. A sonic shapeshifter, TiaCorine stands out among the pack with her vocal elasticity, magnetic lyricism, and otherworldly personality. She’s drawn fans, peers, and critics alike to her blazing light — scoring an XXL Freshman nod amid copious press love; becoming a staple at festivals like Dreamville, Rolling Loud, and Coachella; earning cosigns from Drake and the late, great Gangsta Boo; and dropping viral hits like her signature flex, “FreakyT,” which has over 50 million streams on Spotify alone. “It's a bigger thing than just making hits,” says TiaCorine. “This is my destiny.” Her indomitable self-assurance comprises the molten core of her strikingly bold, genre-bounding, guest-packed second album, CORINIAN. The new set is the culmination of a trilogy following her I Can't Wait LP and Almost There EP. “If you pay attention to the artwork of the projects, you can see a pink aura in the background,” she says. Indeed, what looks like a futuristic city looms on the horizon, getting closer with each release. “That place is everything Tia wanted to be. Now I’m here. My new-self killed my old-self. There’s no fear. There’s no doubt. There’s no second-guessing. I’ve reached my final form.” CORINIAN’s cover shows a fuchsia, alien version of TiaCorine seconds away from hatching out of a levitating bubble. It’s a worthy metaphor. Assisted by ace producers ranging from Kenny Beats to Hit-Boy, she explodes into new territory that’s somehow both her most experimental yet and her most welcoming, warping and inverting more styles than ever before. She’s also joined by a wild array of rap risk-takers, including Saweetie, J.I.D., NLE Choppa, Flo Milli, Smino, Wiz Khalifa, and SoundCloud OG Pouya. The audacious star who coined “anime trap” as her sound is still there, but she also puts her own gravitational spin on modern R&B (“Pretty”), hard-hitting bilingual reggaeton (“La La La”), swaggering .Paak-style funk-rap (“Was Hannin”), darkly driving post-punk (“Buttercup”), ballroom dance culture (“Ate”), and ’80s Freestyle music (“Lotion”). TiaCorine’s worlds-conquering journey started in the third grade, growing up in Winston-Salem. “I remember just like it was yesterday,” she recalls. “I did a few talent shows back then. My dad and I were on the way to one, and I had a That’s So Raven moment where I saw my future self, doing what I’m doing now. It hit me like lightning.” Already a vocalist, young Tia began learning flute and piano, while absorbing different strains of music from everyone in her household. After developing a one-of-one style, Tia scored her first viral success in college with 2018’s “Lotto.” Her growing responsibilities as a new mother, student, and shift-worker at a chicken joint almost led her to abandon her vision, but after a year-long recording drought, a friend urged her to get back in the studio: “It's like I woke up from a bad dream: ‘I remember who I am now.’” She signed a record deal within months, leading to a string of releases that locked her in as “one to watch,” including 2022’s I Can’t Wait, led by the breakout “FreakyT,” which dominated the Urban Mainstream and Billboard Hip Hop/R&B charts, got a Latto remix, and became Gold-certified. In 2024, the equally vivid and gritty Almost There (her fourth EP) marked an expansion of TiaCorine’s reach and creativity, but CORINIAN leaps light years ahead and the shift is evident in every detail, down to her delivery. On the adorably aggressive “Fall in Love,” TiaCorine comes at romance with the same intent and intensity that she brings to verses tearing down rivals. On the lead single “Ironic,” which got a trippy Lyrical Lemonade music video, she effortlessly rides Kenny’s goopy synths, firing off flex after flex: “Designer drip, Prada pimp, they look forward to my fit / I let you ride that once / But, Michael Jackson, this is it.” She practically shouts her way through the booming “Backyard,” a domineering complement to J.I.D.’s slippery delivery. With CORINIAN, TiaCorine doesn’t just invite listeners to join her on an interplanetary tour of her ever-expanding universe — she demands we suit up and get on board. With every release, she’s continued to evolve as both an artist and a woman, soaring ever closer to the destination that she’s now reached. “Music was always leading me to this moment. I’ve always had people gravitate to my orbit, and I’ve known this was bigger than me. I'm supposed to touch people,” she says. “You can feel my energy in the music, making you feel good. That's my purpose.”

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