Tierra Whack Is A Slayer Of Potatoes In 'Unemployed' Video

Tierra Whack's videos have often had a modicum of sanity tying down their absurd notions to the Earth, however it looks like "Unemployed" finally pushes the burgeoning rapper into Edgar Allen Poe levels of absurdity. (Idea for later: Whack reenacts Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" for the video for "Only Child"). In her latest visual, Whack terrorizes potatoes, cooks potatoes, and eats potatoes to... Potatoes. I told you.


Here, Whack's in the kitchen with a sharp knife, slicing and dicing russet potatoes with a mischievous grin on her face. Slice. A diced potato. Slice. Cut into four strips. Slice. Cut into steak fries. Whenever she eviscerates these brown ovals, one of those watches her from a nearby pile with wide, horrified eyes. It understands that pretty soon, it will be cut into correctly symmetrical pieces. Whack's eyes hold a glint of murderous red. She's prepared to pounce. Slice.


Any time she's done, she carries the potatoes – immediately after they've been deep baked a golden brown – to a table where she eats her patron: nevertheless another potato, only this one's large and grotesque. Because the potato feasts, Whack's hips widen. It's a unsettling array of images that make little sense the more that you look at them. Nevertheless Whack's power comes in giving shape to the random and unconnected. She succeeds here.


"Unemployed" was the last track of #WhackHistoryMonth that wrapped up in March. The other tracks released from it were "Only Child, "CLONES," "Gloria," and "Wasteland."


Check out this strangely artistic video up above.