How Tierra Whack Went From "Whack World" to "Heaven" With J Melodic | The Formula S2E5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- Coming off the success of 'Whack World,' Tierra Whack and J Melodic went back to the lab to create not only something new, but otherworldly. The track, titled “Heaven,” is from Whack’s new EP, "R&B?".
Rodney Carmichael | November 23, 2021
Genius loves company, especially the weird, wired sort of genius embodied by Tierra Whack.
But we don't always get to peep the kind of collective effort that goes into making her brand of Black girl magic. Scroll down the Soundcloud of her musical timeline - after she'd dropped her Philly-freestyling, cypher-stealing handle Dizzle Dizz and before Whack World shot her into the stratosphere - and you'll find a treasure chest of early songs that capture her genre-bending eccentricity. The very first joint in particular, posted in February 2015, is a minute-and-a-half long ditty of backwards rapping and shape-shifting called "Color Blind." And the warm, warbling soundtrack propelling her flow is produced - as the credit reads - "by musty ass J Melodic."
That's the kind of cheeky missive one only gets away with dropping on a loved one and it perfectly encapsulates the brotherly-sisterly bond shared between these two Philly natives. Their working relationship is equally intense: Every workday they convene for 12-hour studio sessions and J Melodic programs beats while Tierra admittedly pushes his buttons.
"We always disagree. I don't know how we work," Tierra says before J delivers his own deadpan response: "I humble myself and put myself aside to make sure that she's just comfortable," he says, cracking Tierra up.
In our final episode of a season focused on the art of collaboration between rappers and producers, we traveled to their hometown to find out how Tierra and J truly click behind the scenes. Over seven years, they've made hundreds of songs together. And the world has been fortunate enough to hear a handful of the hottest, including "Pretty Ugly," one of two songs Melodic produced on Whack World. But that routine hasn't dimmed their drive to innovate, as they shared one of their latest forays into uncharted terrain with us, an unreleased song The Formula is fortunate to premiere. It's titled "Heaven" and it feels like a kind of gospel salve custom made for the pandemic.
In the process of breaking down both songs, Tierra and J reveal how they push each other to the point of inspiration with their creative give-and-take. 'Cause patience is a virtue, but provocation is too.
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These two did a phenomenal job on "Heaven" . It's my fave Tierra Whack track, hands-down. It fills my soul. Those rich harmonies that cut so abruptly? Stunning
That Heaven Track
Is so soooo Beautiful.
I feel the presence of the Holy spirit on that.
May God Bless
and Heal you Both
Emotionally, Spiritually
and Everywhere you need in the Precious name of Jesus
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I wasn't ready for Heaven 😭. It's so true, Heaven has all my favorite people.
she's one of the only artists that every SINGLE song she releases is amazing
She can do no wrong
Tierra is so talented and she’s repping Philly 💪🏾💙✨
So much talent coming from there! Yall got artists that touch the soul
@@ahoued42 Yes we do, spoiled with it.
I wanna say every artist out of Philly hits hard from Jilly from Philly to the Roots to Beanie.
This chemistry means so much. Although there are lots of tension to their process, but the result always made them both excited. I will listen more to Tierra's projects.
“The process is us showing up” looooove that
Heaven is such a beautifully simple yet extremely complicated song. So much is expressed in a few words. It's brilliant.
“Heaven” really made me tune into her. That song is fire!
Tierra is absolutely brilliant 💯💯
'Heaven' is another one of those tracks that I listened to once, two years back, and only returned to a few days ago.
Maaaan, did I slept on this song. The subtlety, the simplicity, the choir and melody and lyrics. That's what a modern gospel song should sound like, hands down!!!
That heaven song is fire 🔥 😍 😩 i need that yesterday
I need the Heaven track like ASAP!!
I absolutely love them. Now watching. ❤️
Tierra is so 🔥
I love that song Heaven.
Ooooh! Gorgeous! Can’t wait for their new music!
They better release that heaven
this will be hit "heaven"
3:06 TO 3:35 Got me stuck. Wainting patently thanks Tierra Whack. Timeless
😍😍Super dope!!! “Heaven” so beautiful can’t wait for the drop!!!
Love them. Heaven is one of the best songs ever. Thanks for making it.
I really hope Heaven gets released soon 😭
🥺 she’s so special
This was so wholesome to watch❤️
Despite our age difference her music is dope and relatable
I love the colors bleeding for the music and to top it off with them feeding us with knowledge behind the art is serenity. Thank you for letting us be free in y'all intellectual musical art. 💙
Yoooo, release this track ASAP please!!
"I like my money crisp and clean go crazy for the dough like Krispy Kreme" - OOOOOOOOOFFFF
They create amazing music!!! Big fan from Milwaukee!!!
I can't wait til the new music is out either...been patiently waiting since whack world came out
This combo is unreal
Love the graphicssss
I need HEAVEN yesterday!!
This is just genius!
Man, this girl is something special
I can’t wait til she release heaven it’s so true we need day passes/ month passes really but maybe I’m greedy
After hearing her on Lovecraft Country, she is def on all the time
Big Tierra fan here
all the way from South Africa, man and y'all are some creative people, I love it
perfect interview
I WANNA GOOOOO THERE
We need boldly James and jay Versace on here for real.
wow! this is great! thanks NPR! SO MUCH SOUL!
trap has gotten such a bad rap from mumble rappers.
nice to hear someone not scared to be different from the norm.
back to the art of it... not all about girls, money and cars.
that was hard
I love the collab
Exciting!! Love them so much.
I need that Heaven track. ❤️
tierra's just different
215 Philly all day!
Comment unrelated - TINY DESK please get Silk Sonic on your show. Thanks.
Tierra is a breath of fresh air.
I love this girl so much 😩💗
Can't wait to meet
I love her so much and her cute friend
Better late than never. Never late is better. 😆😆😆😆
Love This! Love Tierra 🤍
lush to hear from these lovely humans!
We can’t wait either 😭😭
Ten stars
so if Pop? is releasing today...and Rap? just recently released...does that mean Gospel? is next ???
Inspired song. Great job
DOPE 4 SHOW!!!!
So dope 🙌
i wanna go there... put on a show there.....
I wanna make a song with her 🥺🤦🏽♀️
Pls get soprü on tiny desk!
I love those microphones! What are they?
She really looks like Ari Lennox
Beautiful!
Sheeyit.
What audio visualizer overlay is that?
I've been wondering this myself
give us timbaland and missy elliot
She should have been on Donda that heaven song would have sounded good with Kanye
😎✌🏻
Knew you'd come eventually . . . 😏
I am a total Whack Head ---- Fan for life! J's a dude too x
Philly
Major 070 shake vibes on the new track
Selamat malam
Nice sound. But we can’t just “imagine” Heaven to be what it is not. Only one person (besides the God-man Yeshua) went there and came back, John the Apostle. The book of Revelation is his account of who is there. Fr, fr
First☺️
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