Tierra Whack has released her first full-length album, WORLD WIDE WHACK. Whack made a name for herself in 2018 when she dropped her revolutionary debut mixtape and short film, Whack World, which was innovative at the time for its 15-songs-in-15-minutes approach, each song clocking in at just a minute and with an accompanying visual. Whack World introduced mainstream audiences to the Philadelphia rapper’s kaleidoscopic take on music, mischievously switching genres with charisma and humor like the changing sets in her music videos.
In the interim between projects, Whack dropped miscellaneous singles, worked on music with Alicia Keys and Lil Yachty, collaborated with Lego and Pokémon, and even dropped three short, genre-blending EPs over the course of December 2021: Rap?, Pop?, and R&B?. WORLD WIDE WHACK, in contrast to Whack’s previous efforts, is longer than anything else in her discography, with a runtime of just under 40 minutes, which is a normal album length, albeit on the longer side by today’s standards.
Notably, WORLD WIDE WHACK is 15 tracks, just like her debut mixtape, but it’s longer runtime signals a chance to prove herself beyond her namemaking minute-long songs.
