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Tierra Whack Delivers on All of Her Potential With Kaleidoscopic ‘World Wide Whack’: Album Review
Phialdelphia rapper Tierra Whack delivers on all of the promise shown on her debut mixtape with her full-length debut, 'World Wide Whack.'
The varied soundscapes, elastic tonal inflections, and diverse structural approaches render the album as a neonic funhouse, except the distortion here only brings more clarity to the personal and creative DNA of the 28-year-old Philadelphia artist. ” She serves up adventurous punchlines with a symbolic hook for bad girls: “I can never behave — or I’ma be late.” The braggadocio is distilled through an intermittently childlike delivery; on “Snake Eyes,” she invokes a Lamar-esque vocal tic when she pronounces “Mmm” like she’s trying to learn the alphabet. But Whack is at her best grafting trippy, half-sung raps onto dazed beats, drifting somewhere between reality and “ The Secret World of Tierra Whack.” Within these surrealistic spaces, she uses semi-impressionistic lyricism to code emotional overflows in hidden meanings.
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