Philly rapper Tierra Whack is back with a new (to us, anyway) song — "Chanel Pit" is Whack's first release since sharing her Rap?, Pop? and R&B? EPs back in 2021, though the track isn't necessarily indicative of any new direction that Whack might be headed in.
As she told Zane Lowe in a new interview, "Chanel Pit" has "been sitting for a while. I made it a few years ago. We've been all the way honest. The song is old. I have a lot of music stacked, but it's something about anytime I would play that song for people, their eyes would just light up."
She continued, calling the reaction to the song "so special to me":
I think I wrote it down in my notes and then I went to the studio and I just was like, I got to start with this line. "Mosh pit smell like Chanel". I actually was in the mosh pit. I was going crazy, just having fun. So yeah, it has to be a personal experience. I have to really be affected by it, good or bad.
… I had this friend, I think I was at an event, a show, a concert or something, and he pulled up and he said he knew that I was there because he knows my scent. I don't know if it was an Earl Sweatshirt concert or something. It was something. But everybody's like, moshing going crazy. And he was like, I was walking, he was like, "I smell Whack. She's here." Then he made his way backstage and he found me, and he was like, "Yo." That always just stuck in my head. I'm like, wow. Then I'll get on an elevator or something and people would like, "I knew that you were.." I've been wearing the same Chanel Gabrielle for years and it has become my scent. So when my friend told me that story, I was like, I don't know. It just stuck to me. It's the smell of excellence.
Whack's debut full-length album is allegedly coming next year. Later this month, she's releasing a Chris Moukarbel-directed feature-length film called Cypher that follows Whack's rise — it'll be streaming on Hulu and in select theatres on November 24.
Check out the Alex Lill-directed video for "Chanel Pit" below.
As she told Zane Lowe in a new interview, "Chanel Pit" has "been sitting for a while. I made it a few years ago. We've been all the way honest. The song is old. I have a lot of music stacked, but it's something about anytime I would play that song for people, their eyes would just light up."
She continued, calling the reaction to the song "so special to me":
I think I wrote it down in my notes and then I went to the studio and I just was like, I got to start with this line. "Mosh pit smell like Chanel". I actually was in the mosh pit. I was going crazy, just having fun. So yeah, it has to be a personal experience. I have to really be affected by it, good or bad.
… I had this friend, I think I was at an event, a show, a concert or something, and he pulled up and he said he knew that I was there because he knows my scent. I don't know if it was an Earl Sweatshirt concert or something. It was something. But everybody's like, moshing going crazy. And he was like, I was walking, he was like, "I smell Whack. She's here." Then he made his way backstage and he found me, and he was like, "Yo." That always just stuck in my head. I'm like, wow. Then I'll get on an elevator or something and people would like, "I knew that you were.." I've been wearing the same Chanel Gabrielle for years and it has become my scent. So when my friend told me that story, I was like, I don't know. It just stuck to me. It's the smell of excellence.
Whack's debut full-length album is allegedly coming next year. Later this month, she's releasing a Chris Moukarbel-directed feature-length film called Cypher that follows Whack's rise — it'll be streaming on Hulu and in select theatres on November 24.
Check out the Alex Lill-directed video for "Chanel Pit" below.
