Credit: Farren Andrea
February 2, 2023 – Today, quickly emerging North Carolina superstar TiaCorine announces the release of her major label debut EP, Almost There. Listen HERE via Interscope Records. The eight-song set includes “Yung Joc,” her recently released collaboration with Luh Tyler and the propulsive “Bonnet.” Along with the EP, she releases the visuals for the latter track. Across those hits and a half-dozen unmissable new cuts, the rising rapper distinguishes herself as one of the most versatile and exciting artists to watch.
Fans and critics who have followed Tia’s remarkable rise are well aware of her ability to adapt to different tempos and sound palettes. But on Almost There, she flexes her muscles as a collaborator, too: see the way, on “Blick,” she goes blow for blow with Key Glock, a fixture in Memphis’s bass-obsessed club scene, or the way she launches into orbit with the celebrated Detroit eccentric Zelooperz on “Olive.”
Yet there’s no mistaking who the headliner is. The poise and verve that Tia shows on current single “Bonnet” are nearly superhuman: “I think you forgot that I got your location,” she quips, the latent thread lurking just underneath the line’s playfulness. “And I’ma turn up, I don’t need no occasion.” Despite the hairpin turns in production and Tia’s own willingness to leap from one topic to another without hesitation, she is always exerting total control.
Almost There is available on all major streaming platforms. Fans can catch Tia on her just-announced headlining tour with Monster Energy. Dates are as follows:
MONSTER ENERGY OUTBREAK TOUR PRESENTS: TIACORINE ALMOST THERE TOUR
3/2 – Chicago, IL – Avondale Music Hall
3/3 – Columbus, OH – Woodlands Tavern
3/4 – Detroit, MI – El Club
3/6 – Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground
3/8 – New York, NY – Racket
3/9 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
3/10 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry at the Fillmore
3/13 – Washington, DC – Howard Theatre
3/14 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
3/16 – Nashville, TN – Exit/In
3/17 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
3/19 – Dallas, TX – HOB Cambridge Room
3/20 – Houston, TX – HOB Bronze Peacock
3/23 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
3/24 – San Francisco – August Hall
3/27 – Seattle, WA – Neumos
There’s a nostalgic hypnotism in TiaCorine’s music and style. TiaCorine’s roots lie in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a bustling, industrious city sat squarely in the middle of the Northern and Southern border of the U.S., making the young rapper’s music evocative of multiple coasts and styles while still anchored in a subtle, decidedly Southern foundation. While in college, Tia welcomed her first child and almost hung up the rap crown. “My friend had me come to the studio, and I made a song. And it just came back. It’s been over a year since I rapped or did anything, and it just was so easy and natural for me. I forgot I love music.” Calling back to her knowledge of piano and flute from her childhood, Tia brought her music theory knowledge to the studio to create the perfect ear worm.
“I made a song called ‘Cabbage’ with OGSpliff and I just started becoming a legend in Winston, because everybody was like, ‘Wow, this is a different sound you have. It’s hard,’” Tia says. In the middle of welcoming her first child and finishing her degree, Tia tapped into her passions within fashion, anime, hip-hop, and more to record songs sporadically throughout college. “Lotto,” christened with Sailor Moon sound bites and vicious, cocky bars nestled between a deceptively charming hook, Tia knew she couldn’t turn back now. The lethal pair of her 34Corineand Pussy EPs put her on the map leading into 2022’s I Can’t Wait. Toward the tail end of the year, the infectious, instructive “Freaky T” made its way online. From TikTok to the club, TiaCorine became inescapable. Since “Freaky T,” the Winston-Salem superhero has embarked on a tour with Key Glock, blessed her hit single with a remix from Latto, festival appearances, and more, having done all of this before her major label debut. Since signing with Interscope in 2023, TiaCorine intends to give audiences a taste of all the characters inside her.
TiaCorine – Almost There
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