Consumer Guide Album

Tierra Whack: World Wide Whack [Interscope, 2024]
Cheerfully compulsive 28-year-old Philadelphia-Atlanta rapper-singer-rhymer Whack made her big splash in 2018 with the 13-song but also 13-minute Whack World, where arithmetic whizzes will be less than shocked to learn she ended each of the 13 songs she showcased at precisely 60 seconds flat, an effect that proved disorienting and charming simultaneously. Her timbre soft, her enunciation impeccable anyway, her conversational, too-smart-for-cute flow is so engaged yet also so casual it's like she's hasn't ruled stardom out but is just too pleased with herself now to start getting pushy about it. A-