Wolf’s ARC Pick: Whack World by Tierra Whack

[OccultHawk]

Wolf’s Album Review Club (ARC) pick:



Whack World
Studio album by Tierra Whack

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[OccultHawk]

They took my dog away
They treat him like a stray
I talked to God today
All dogs go to heaven (all dogs go to heaven)
Heaven (heaven)
I miss my dog (heaven)
I kissed my dog (heaven)
I miss my dog (heaven)
I kissed my dog (heaven, all dogs go to Heaven)
My dog had a name
Keepin' his name alive
If I had to leave, hell on earth (all dogs go to heaven)
My dog had a name (I'm gon' sing his name)
Keepin' his name alive (I'm the one to blame)
If I had to leave (he would do the same)
Hell on earth (walk through the flames)
Heaven (Heaven)
Heaven (Heaven)

Me:

[WWWP]

seriously guys it's only 15mins long just give it a shot

[Marie Monday]

I know little about hiphop but I'll give my uninformed opinion. The different songs/pieces were so short that it felt a little fractured to me, but it might be a good thing for me; in the Pitchfork thread I discovered that I often find hiphop songs to get duller halfway through. The lyrics (as far as I can make them out) make me grin sometimes, and I like the music behind the rapping. It's very melodious for a hiphop album I guess, and it has cool rhythms. I like her voice and the range it has (in terms of how her voice sounds).

[Neapolitan]

At first I thought it was one of those album previews I often see on YT. So I checked it discogs.com and it's not a preview. It turns out every song is approximately (if not exactly) one minute long. The details of the video describes it as "A Visual And Auditory Project." Visually the way the video is artsy and weird reminds me of stuff Marina and Diamonds, and St. Vincent would do. She switches up from rapping, and singing (slow jams) R&B style, and the examples in the video shows she is apt at both.

[mr dave]

Knowing that this is more of an experiment / project I'm forced into a different perspective.

My first impression is that it sounds like a collection of demos. I get that they're essentially finished pieces and fit into a whole but at the same time a lot of these sound like summaries rather than whole ideas. It's like perpetual first paragraphs without a follow-up, rather than shifting into the next gear it jumps to the next track. All first verse, no chorus.

Maybe I'm too old and I just don't get the reflection of modern youth. It happened to me, it'll happen to you too. Someday.

Big picture though it reminds me of Imani Coppola's first release back in the late 90s (Chupacabra) - another project album. Not so much stylistically but in the approach of incorporating a wider variety of styles and the occasional absurd vocals. Especially as this album progresses and TW starts getting weirder / twangier.

It's certainly not bad, but now that it's done I'm left to wonder what I just listened to. Maybe I should have watched along instead of just writing.

[WWWP]

Great, now look at this post

Originally Posted by WWWP

Tierra Whack

I came across the video for her latest single Unemployed and was grabbed right away. I dove in and learned she earned a grammy nomination this year for her video Mumbo Jumbo. She's only 24 now, but I found this chick's been on the philly scene since fifteen and has toured in recent years with Lauryn Hill and Flying Lotus, and there are bountiful youtube clips featuring Tierra freestyling as a teenager under her former moniker Dizzle Dizz. Asap Rocky called her flow poetic and likened her to Kendrick. Blogs like pitchfork call her sound "reflective" or a commentary on mumble rap and current charts. I don't think so. I think it's obvious she's doing her own thing, everything she puts out is true to her personality - fresh and unique and absurd. That's why it's dope.

She's released one 15-track album (run time of 14 minutes), 2018's visual and auditory project Whack World, and since February she has been releasing a single a week without much commentary, and she recorded a song and video with both Meek Mill and Childish Gambino that hasn't dropped yet. It's unclear if they will be re-released as a full album or what, but I will certainly be following along and spreading the Whack word.

#moneyoverdick

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