Get the latest gossip
‘Beyoncé said: you’re so silly, I love you!’ Tierra Whack, America’s most creative rapper
She’s a muse to Beyoncé, a champion of Lego and raps about her imaginary friend – but behind the whimsy is a street-hardened MC confronting grief and depression
Her 2018 debut album, Whack World, felt like a piece of performance art with 15 multi-genre tracks each exactly one minute long; her feature film last year, Cypher, flipped the tired fly-on-the-wall music documentary format into a satirical horror movie about conspiracy theories and selling out. That country song, incidentally, is called Fuck Off, and tells a ratbag lover in a redneck accent: “I hope your ass breaks out in a rash / You remind me of my deadbeat dad.” Whack’s father wasn’t in the picture and she was raised by her mother, whom she speaks about with absolute wonderment. But never going to get it, so.” The man in question went to prison, and the track Meagan Good tells the couple’s story in unflinching detail, from each cheating on the other to Whack upbraiding him for not working on his own rap craft while incarcerated: “We had the same opportunity, I just chose to prevail,” runs one brutal line.
Or read this on The Guardian