{"id":482743,"date":"2019-02-26T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=799976"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:42:00","slug":"tierra-whack-critiques-imitators-on-gritty-new-song-clones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/tierra-whack-critiques-imitators-on-gritty-new-song-clones\/","title":{"rendered":"Tierra Whack Critiques Imitators on Gritty New Song \u2018Clones\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tierra-whack-clones.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Tierra Whack dropped a hard-hitting new song called \u201cClones.\u201d It\u2019s her second new single this month, following the lighter, sung track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CXdTShfFPYM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Only Child<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClones\u201d has a tough edge to it, thanks to an ominous droning sound overlaying a heavy beat. On the song, Whack laments imitators, rapping \u201cNi**a tried to take my flow\/Who the hell he think he is?\/I just wanna make my dough\/Gotta take care of my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hailing from North Philadelphia, the 23-year-old rapper has turned heads with both her nimble, creative rhymes and strikingly menacing visuals. She released her debut album\u00a0<em>Whack World<\/em> last year to critical acclaim. It was accompanied by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EOTebhPy04g\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">15-minute visual<\/a> that featured distinct, surreal scenes for each song on the album. Her creepy, dentist appointment-set video for single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OFNCSbOPxqA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mumbo Jumbo<\/a>\u201d caught the attention of the Recording Academy as she was nominated for Best Music Video at the Grammy Awards earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tierra-whack-critiques-imitators-on-gritty-new-song-clones-799976\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tierra Whack dropped a hard-hitting new song called \u201cClones.\u201d It\u2019s her second new single this month, following the lighter, sung track \u201cOnly Child.\u201d \u201cClones\u201d has a tough edge to it, thanks to an ominous droning sound overlaying a heavy beat. On the song, Whack laments imitators, rapping \u201cNi**a tried to take my flow\/Who the hell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:50:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}