The safeguards and hypotheticals can be cast aside with the release of World Wide Whack, a debut full-length album that expands the creative vision Tierra Whack introduced six years ago. Checking in at around 40 minutes, its a fully realized portrait of Tierra in all her idiosyncratic glory.

If her first project was Whack World, this one is Whack Universe. She goes all over the musical map as she oscillates between retro jazz funk, sprightly raps, and quirky everygirl R&B scribbled in crayon. Depending on the track, she can be a goofier SZA, or an untethered Kendrick Lamar who colors even more wildly outside of the lines.

The varied soundscapes, elastic tonal inflections, and diverse structural approaches render the album as a neonic funhouse, except the distortion here only brings more clarity to the personal and creative DNA of th