Crazy is good, crazy is fun!
— Tierra Whack
I think people think I'm a extrovert but really I'm a introvert.
I jumped around to different schools so I always had to adapt - remain me but pull from different avenues.
It's funny, for so long I hated my last name.
I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.
It's important for everyone to just be able to express themselves in whatever way.
Everybody's inspiring me to just be me.
I'm naturally all over the place and scatter-brained.
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 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 have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.
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 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.
My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.
I put a lot of fun facts in the 'Mumbo Jumbo' video.
I was always pretty popular, just cool with everybody.
Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.
People compare me to the people I listen to, the people I'm influenced by, Andre 3000, Missy, Busta.
I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.
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.
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.
Really, I only listen to like five songs.
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.'
That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.
That's why I'm so crazy because my mom is crazy.
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.
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 want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.
I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.
The phone started ringing when I dropped 'Whack World.'
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.
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.
Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.
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.
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.
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.
I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.
I didn't want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.
I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.
