Saturday, August 9, 2025
LBNN
  • Business
  • Markets
  • Politics
  • Crypto
  • Finance
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Taxes
  • Creator Economy
  • Wealth Management
  • Documentaries
No Result
View All Result
LBNN

Tierra Whack Doesn’t Want Her Creativity Boxed In

Simon Osuji by Simon Osuji
December 12, 2023
in Artificial Intelligence
0
Tierra Whack Doesn’t Want Her Creativity Boxed In
0
SHARES
1
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


The visual curiosity of television called to Tierra Whack at a young age. “I was glued to the TV. If it wasn’t cartoons, it was music videos from Missy Elliott to Ludacris, Busta Rhymes and Eminem. They were my favorite people to watch,” she said last week at LiveWIRED, the 30th anniversary event for WIRED held at The Midway in San Francisco. “It just drew me in. I’m like, ‘I want to be like them. I want to be in the TV.’”

In the years that followed, the Philadelphia-born rapper made good on her girlhood ambitions. An experimentalist with a taste for the Black avant-garde, Whack broke onto the music scene in 2018 with Whack World, a 15-track, 15-minute-long mini-album brimming with invention and whimsy. Its release—acclaimed by fans, critics, and veteran music artists like Flying Lotus and Erykah Badu—was unlike anything else at the time: a twisting, playful trip through Whack’s jamboree of a mind. It was a concept immaculately primed for a generation of digital natives raised on Instagram and fluent in the transitory nature of social media trends (each song was capped at one minute apiece).

Speaking with WIRED’s design director, Alyssa Walker, about the comforts and challenges of creativity, Whack explained how the genesis of her artistic process often begins with a visual. “I have to see something—whether it’s an image, a color, a pattern. Just anything. I just have to feel [it], and then I start to form this almost movie clip in my head,” she said. “Because everything I’m doing, it has to be a movie, it has to be a film.”

Tierra Whack performs at LiveWIRED in San Francisco.

Photograph: Kimberly White/Getty Images



Source link

Related posts

Here’s How to Buy the Best Used EV

Here’s How to Buy the Best Used EV

August 9, 2025
Hoto Snapbloq Tools Review: Attractive Power Tools

Hoto Snapbloq Tools Review: Attractive Power Tools

August 9, 2025
Previous Post

OEUK report outlines North Sea clean energy skills potential

Next Post

Dollar drops, treasuries gain before US CPI data: Markets wrap

Next Post
Dollar drops, treasuries gain before US CPI data: Markets wrap

Dollar drops, treasuries gain before US CPI data: Markets wrap

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

RECOMMENDED NEWS

Top 5 African countries with the lowest grocery prices at the end of 2024

Top 5 African countries with the lowest grocery prices at the end of 2024

8 months ago
A Blatant Attempt to Generate a 'House of the Dragon' AI Overview

A Blatant Attempt to Generate a 'House of the Dragon' AI Overview

1 year ago
India’s BSNL partners with NEC for new subsea cable

India’s BSNL partners with NEC for new subsea cable

2 years ago
Revolutionising Land Defence Tactical DF

Revolutionising Land Defence Tactical DF

7 months ago

POPULAR NEWS

  • Ghana to build three oil refineries, five petrochemical plants in energy sector overhaul

    Ghana to build three oil refineries, five petrochemical plants in energy sector overhaul

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • The world’s top 10 most valuable car brands in 2025

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • When Will SHIB Reach $1? Here’s What ChatGPT Says

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Global ranking of Top 5 smartphone brands in Q3, 2024

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Top 10 African countries with the highest GDP per capita in 2025

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 LBNN - All rights reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Markets
  • Crypto
  • Economics
    • Manufacturing
    • Real Estate
    • Infrastructure
  • Finance
  • Energy
  • Creator Economy
  • Wealth Management
  • Taxes
  • Telecoms
  • Military & Defense
  • Careers
  • Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Investigative journalism
  • Art & Culture
  • Documentaries
  • Quizzes
    • Enneagram quiz
  • Newsletters
    • LBNN Newsletter
    • Divergent Capitalist

© 2023 LBNN - All rights reserved.