“I’m always trying to do every part myself, you know what I mean? I’m trying to sing, rap, whatever. I’m trying to do it all.”
― Tierra Whack
“I love when people overexaggerate. It’s so funny to me.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“I didn’t want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.”
― Tierra Whack
“That’s why I’m so crazy because my mom is crazy.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about – music and writing.”
― Tierra Whack
“That’s what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.”
― Tierra Whack
“I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I’m always laughing at my own pain.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.’”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“Really, I only listen to like five songs.”
― Tierra Whack
“Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“I’m naturally all over the place and scatter-brained.”
― Tierra Whack
“Everybody’s opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you’ve got.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“Everybody’s inspiring me to just be me.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I’m just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.”
― Tierra Whack
“It’s important for everyone to just be able to express themselves in whatever way.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“People compare me to the people I listen to, the people I’m influenced by, Andre 3000, Missy, Busta.”
― Tierra Whack
“I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.”
― Tierra Whack
“The phone started ringing when I dropped ‘Whack World.’”
― Tierra Whack
“Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.”
― Tierra Whack
“It’s funny, for so long I hated my last name.”
― Tierra Whack
“I don’t want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.”
― Tierra Whack
“I was always pretty popular, just cool with everybody.”
― Tierra Whack
“I jumped around to different schools so I always had to adapt – remain me but pull from different avenues.”
― Tierra Whack
“I want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.”
― Tierra Whack
“I put a lot of fun facts in the ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ video.”
― Tierra Whack
“I think people think I’m a extrovert but really I’m a introvert.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“My moods are like a roller coaster. It’s hard for me to just feel one way all the time.”
― Tierra Whack
“Crazy is good, crazy is fun!”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“You can’t put me in a box, because then it’s just like, you’re not gonna get anything.”
― Tierra Whack
“Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can’t get Tierra back until the wig comes off.”
― Tierra Whack
“Playing characters is fun because you get the chance to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.”
― Tierra Whack
“I grew up around a bunch of rappers and street dudes and they were always like: ‘yo! She’s a little different but she’s her.’ They respected it because you know it wasn’t forced, I wasn’t posing to be something I wasn’t.”
― Tierra Whack
“As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I’m performing I want everybody to listen.”
― Tierra Whack
“I was my mom’s oldest child, so she was like, watching closely and taking notes, like, ‘Okay, this is what she gravitates towards,’ and she gave me all the tools to keep me focused. I liked to write; she got me notebooks. I wanted to draw; she got me sketch books and crayons and coloured pencils.”
― Tierra Whack
“I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.”
― Tierra Whack
“I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.”
― Tierra Whack
“If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.”
― Tierra Whack
“Green Eggs and Ham’ is fire.”
― Tierra Whack
“I’ll never be on the level of my idols.”
― Tierra Whack
“There was a time in school where I was trying to figure out which lunch table I belonged to. Eventually, I started my own table and formed my own crew.”
― Tierra Whack
“To be honest, I’m selfish as an artist. I’m doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.”
― Tierra Whack
“If I’m not at the studio, I’m at home.”
― Tierra Whack
“If I’m at home, I’m just watching a bunch of horror movies.”
― Tierra Whack
“I always felt more comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, I’ll be happy.”
― Tierra Whack
“I’m having fun creating what I’m creating.”
― Tierra Whack
“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
“Me being dark-skinned, that was like a big thing. Growing up, I hated myself. It was, like, weird. Kids are cruel.”
― Tierra Whack
“I started music to be myself – to release and express – so I have to make sure that I’m staying true to me and making myself happy.”
― Tierra Whack
“One-minute songs are easy as hell!”
― Tierra Whack
“I’m a visual person.”
― Tierra Whack
“Each day I record I’m always doing something different that I’ve never done. So I feel like I’m a new artist every time I go to the studio.”
― Tierra Whack
“I just surprise myself every day.”
― Tierra Whack
“That’s my real name. That’s not like a gimmick or anything, that’s my government name, Tierra Whack.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“I have a really bad memory, to be honest.”
― Tierra Whack
“I never do the same thing twice.”
― Tierra Whack
“One day I’ll make a rap song, the next day I’ll make a pop song, the next day I’ll make a rock song, the next day I’ll make R&B. I don’t have a pattern.”
― Tierra Whack
“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.”
― Tierra Whack
“I never know what time it is, If you don’t know what time it is, you can just move. Time is a restraint.”
― Tierra Whack
“I don’t like clocks.”
― Tierra Whack
“Atlanta represents freedom.”
― Tierra Whack
“I hate olives. They’re so nasty. I hate everything about olives. Mushrooms, too.”
― Tierra Whack
“I like strawberries, kiwis, and oranges.”
― Tierra Whack
“Yeah, I’m a Leo.”
― Tierra Whack
“I like to peel oranges.”
― Tierra Whack
“I love @love.watts on Instagram!”
― Tierra Whack
“When I’m recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.”
― Tierra Whack
“I decided I wanted to use my real name ‘Tierra Whack’ when I decided I wanted to make music my career.”
― Tierra Whack
“When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.”
― Tierra Whack
“I fight for whatever I believe in! I’ve learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.”
― Tierra Whack
“I just call myself an artist, really.”
― Tierra Whack
“Everything’s so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.”
― Tierra Whack
“I was in the lab for a long time before I actually, like, put stuff out.”
― Tierra Whack
“Being a female in music I just, I want everybody to, all the women to come in, and we huddle up and we work together and we help each other.”
― Tierra Whack
“You know, I’m willing to dim my light so that somebody else can shine because, like, we all have to find our inner lights, and shine in one world.”
― Tierra Whack
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