Quotes from Tierra Whack

Growing up people would tell me: 'Yo, you only can do one thing. If you're going to rap, just rap. If you're going to sing, just sing.' It boxed me in. But I just figured out a way to show everything. It's like if you have a job interview, you want to present as many skills as you have.

I didn't want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.

I fight for whatever I believe in! I've learned to trust myself. I went from a being a rapper to an artist.

I grew up around a bunch of rappers and street dudes and they were always like: 'yo! She's a little different but she's her.' They respected it because you know it wasn't forced, I wasn't posing to be something I wasn't.

When I was 16, I was rapping just to rap.

Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.

Green Eggs and Ham' is fire.

Like for 'Black Nails,' I just had black nails - and I never have black nails. It was my first and last time getting black nails. And that's so not normal for me. So when you're recording, you're up at the mic and you gotta name the file, so I just look down and I'm like, 'Black Nails!' That's literally what it was.

When I'm recording, I usually just mumble and hum a melody and then fill the words in as I go.

It's funny, for so long I hated my last name.

Me being dark-skinned, that was like a big thing. Growing up, I hated myself. It was, like, weird. Kids are cruel.

I'm having fun creating what I'm creating.

Being a female in music I just, I want everybody to, all the women to come in, and we huddle up and we work together and we help each other.

I have a really bad memory, to be honest.

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.

If I'm at home, I'm just watching a bunch of horror movies.

I was my mom's oldest child, so she was like, watching closely and taking notes, like, 'Okay, this is what she gravitates towards,' and she gave me all the tools to keep me focused. I liked to write; she got me notebooks. I wanted to draw; she got me sketch books and crayons and coloured pencils.

I create, put it out, repeat. Like, me and my friends, we play Uno and Connect Four a lot. I'm having fun, and I don't care about how many times I won or lost - I just want to keep playing the game.

Atlanta represents freedom.

I'll never be on the level of my idols.

People compare me to the people I listen to, the people I'm influenced by, Andre 3000, Missy, Busta.

You know, I'm willing to dim my light so that somebody else can shine because, like, we all have to find our inner lights, and shine in one world.