I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.
Tierra Whack
My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.
I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.
I was born in the summer, but I hate it because I'm allergic to bug bites. I would go play with my cousins, and then we'd go inside and I'd have mosquito bites everywhere. But mine are different - like, they blow up with puss. It's really bad.
You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.
I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.
I don't really reach out, it has to be organic. If we're in a studio setting and we're feeling the vibe, that's cool, we can make something. Like, I've been in a bunch of sessions with people I haven't made music with. Like, I just chill. I'm not forcing it. I don't DM people like, 'Yooo, I'm trying to get on a track.'
Growing up people would tell me: 'Yo, you only can do one thing. If you're going to rap, just rap. If you're going to sing, just sing.' It boxed me in. But I just figured out a way to show everything. It's like if you have a job interview, you want to present as many skills as you have.
I create, put it out, repeat. Like, me and my friends, we play Uno and Connect Four a lot. I'm having fun, and I don't care about how many times I won or lost - I just want to keep playing the game.
I think people think I'm a extrovert but really I'm a introvert.
A hard copy? It's fire. People want vinyl and cassette tapes - it's just cool to be able to touch it and feel it.
That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.
Like for 'Black Nails,' I just had black nails - and I never have black nails. It was my first and last time getting black nails. And that's so not normal for me. So when you're recording, you're up at the mic and you gotta name the file, so I just look down and I'm like, 'Black Nails!' That's literally what it was.
Yeah, I'm a Leo.
I hate olives. They're so nasty. I hate everything about olives. Mushrooms, too.
I never do the same thing twice.
Crazy is good, crazy is fun!
I honestly don't have like a person that I wanna work with. I'm just always focused on me, and I'm still trying to figure out my sound and what I wanna do. So I'm never really looking for features or something.
I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.
I have so much built up inside. To be able to put what I have in my head into real life is just an amazing thing.
I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded. It became a challenge for me, to put words together that nobody would ever think about putting together.
I didn't want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.
That's why I'm so crazy because my mom is crazy.
For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.
I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.
Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I'll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.
Really, I only listen to like five songs.
Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.
I'm naturally all over the place and scatter-brained.
Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.
I'm so excited to just be able to be comfortable in my own skin and give what I have to the world and not feel like I have to copy to stand out or fit in.
Everybody's inspiring me to just be me.
Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.
I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.
It's important for everyone to just be able to express themselves in whatever way.
I can't describe my sound. That's something I don't ever think about and I kinda don't want to think about it.
People compare me to the people I listen to, the people I'm influenced by, Andre 3000, Missy, Busta.
I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.
The phone started ringing when I dropped 'Whack World.'
Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.
It's funny, for so long I hated my last name.
I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.
I was always pretty popular, just cool with everybody.
I jumped around to different schools so I always had to adapt - remain me but pull from different avenues.
I want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.
I put a lot of fun facts in the 'Mumbo Jumbo' video.
So many people compromise everything; you don't have to do that. You see one opportunity and you're scared to turn it down. You don't have to take everything that comes your way and there's always something else on the other side.
I'm most proud of making my mom happy. Really. Because she gave me life, and she supported me. So I want to be able to give back to her.
Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.
Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.
