Tierra Whack stopped by The Tonight Show to showcase a medley of two songs, “Moovies” and “Shower Song.” The singer was joined by a live band for a soulful performance of the dual numbers, which she melded together for the late-night performance. Both tracks come of Whack’s debut LP, World …
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Fall festival season is almost here. To kick off the season, Janelle Monáe and Tierra Whack will bring their eclectic blend of pop and R&B music as co-headliners for the one-time election year music festival, Carolinadaze Music & Arts Festival Series. Hosted by nonprofit Common Cause North Carolina, Carolinadaze will …
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Beyoncé‘s Cowboy Carter is much more than a country album — it’s actually a tour through the Black roots of American music that manages to be both thematically rich and stuffed with indelible pop songs, in multiple genres. Kendrick Lamar‘s virtuosic “Not Like Us,” meanwhile, completely transcends its status as …
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When I tell Tierra Whack over Zoom that I’m spending my summer close to her hometown of Philadelphia — where she’s currently spending time — she has one question. “You got any good food spots you’d like to go to here or no?” She had a whirlwind spring that included …
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The idea of artists needing a “career reboot” often has as much to do with the petulant impatience of content-saturated fans than the actual situation of the artist in question. But in the case of Sia, the urgency of a course correction is hard to deny. Sia broke out from …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Coming to you live from Austin, UrbanOutfittersis kicking off their Spring/Summer campaign with a return to SXSW and exclusive performances from Grammy-nominated artist Tierra Whack — including exclusive …
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In 2018, before it was possible to tell six-hour sagas over the course of several 10 minute TikToks, social media’s foremost mirco-video app was Instagram. Instagram videos could only be a minute long back then, and Tierra Whack made expanse from this limitation in Whack World, a surreal and shiny …
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World Wide Whack, the forthcoming album from Tierra Whack, is a portal into another universe. On the album’s first single “Shower Song,” the rapper offers a glimpse into her day-to-day routine. “Gettin’ ready for my day/So, I gotta get fresh, gotta exfoliate/You know Dove is the best,” Whack sings. “I …
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“One of my secrets,” Snoop Dogg tells Latto in their recent Musicians on Musicians conversation, “is that I remain the biggest kid in the room at all times.” The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now includes highlights of that interview (moderated by Rolling Stone staff writer Andre Gee) along …
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L il Yachty and Tierra Whack are two of the more inventive artists in hip-hop today — two wildly original talents who have charted their own paths without following anyone else’s trends. If you’re going to compare them to anyone, though, it might as well be each other. Both started …
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