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    WHACK WORLD

    Jan 14, 2019 4 minutes
    TEXT KHALILA DOUZE
    PHOTOGRAPHY NICK CANONICA

    Tierra Whack has a tendency to interrupt herself with her own thoughts. “Yo, I’m so fucking mad Flying Lotus isn’t here,” she announces mid-conversation, scouring her surroundings for the experimental producer on a crisp Los Angeles evening.

    Sitting in the artist compound at Tyler the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, Tierra seems distracted. The 23-year-old rapper – who’s scheduled to perform at the festival the following day – has been abruptly changing subjects, only this time it’s to express disappointment that one of her favourite artists is nowhere to be seen.

    “I just thought he would be , you

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