Today we’d like to introduce you to Tierra Williams.
Hi Tierra, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I started off singing since I was two years old my mom said. Using my bottle as a mic and ran wild in my diaper. They nicknamed me terror 😭🫱🏾🫲🏽 Because I was a sweet child but always onDAT! Still accurate till this day, LOL. Music has always been in my path and purpose. I started writing and creating “Song books” at the age of seven carrying to 12, I started writing poems. Little lyrical songs in a sense. I sang in the church choir until I was 12-13 years old and sang in school choirs up until I got in high school which I then grew my love (starting from middle school) for stepping. I was the co and captain of the step team coming from middle school my entire high school years excluding my junior year. I moved around a LOT. Born on the east side of Detroit Chalmers and Harper GANG GANG. Lol, then moving to the burbs of Canton MI, to staying in a mobile home at the edge of Canton/Ypsi, to moving to Westland, to Novi (where I spent my junior year dancing in our jazz / contemporary program starting from dance one quickly moving to dance three in just a semester) To Livonia where I graduated from Churchill.
AP is the name I developed in middle school when I dressed up as THURNIS HALEY (OFWGKTAIYKYK) and changed my Twitter name at the time to Uh_NamesThurnis 😂 I had an undying love for Tyler the creator and still do. He said in video 1-3 of Thurnis Haley on YouTube, “Fuck Arnold Palmer, I don’t drink that shit” and since then, it’s been up on my name AP. I thought that shit was so funny and been telling people that’s my name ever since. It’s my alter ego, the silly, uncivil, badass version of Tierra. I’m really God’s child. Ridas = devoted to God in Arabic. The last few years have been me dedicating my life to God. Really listening to his path for me, and it’s been leading me to some nice places. April 2022, I won The weed bar contest and won $1000 + an interview on the weed bar with Skilla the same day Skilla Baby signed his record deal. I’m a HUSTLER. I’m a prized possession. I am a Lioness. I am deeply connected with my purpose, and I am here to heal, create, and BRAND TF out of my name and purpose. I KNOW God sent me here to heal through my esthetician work, my all-natural skincare products that truly heal people, giving people self-confidence back, educating OUR people on the power of their skin and the power of nature, and bringing that to my music with my confidence that I pour out on these tracks while I’m rapping, unapologetically raw, gritty, real rap no cap! Bringing the hood back to healing and the healing to the hood.
It’s always UPPER with me. People say I do the most because I am the most. I know my name, I know my value now, and after domestic abuse, self-harm, losing people closest to me, to putting my music down during pregnancy to picking it back up once I had my daughter because that’s one of the only things that made me happy, I have been going hard for my name ever since. I had no idea I could rap for until my senior year of High. RIP Natalian and Zaid two of the people that actually helped me realize that I could. My purpose is to heal and create. I do that through my music. I make people feel good. I make girls wanna talk choppy and care about their self and vaginal and make men actually listen to me while of course, still wanting to hit naturally. All by being me. I also know how to market like hell, lol. I am my brand. From my merch to the way I walk about me. I am a RIDA. Currently, I’ve been working on the lion’s den interviews and Apsculinaryandarts to expand our people’s knowledge on healing, creators, and FOOD. Which cooking is 1 of my favorite things to do, along with eating and trying new places.
I’m an overall experience. I want to be able to show the world that.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Self-harm, depression, abuse, neglect, single parenting, anxiety, having a baby as a baby only at 19. It was all hard. Life is hard. That’s why I keep my faith in God top tier and thankful to have a relationship because I’ve lost so many people close to me, and I would’ve been gone crazy by now if it wasn’t for my faith, my drive, my baby, my family, and ridas! Music helps to keep the thoughts from building up into anger. It’s therapy. Helping people also helps me help people. So it’s truly all a beautiful chaotic cycle.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I’d like to say for the most part, I’m just raw. I’d love for you all to do your own digging about me but surface level, what you see is what you get. I’m a full-time mom and entrepreneur/ hustler. I genuinely care about my community and playing a part in healing it, which is why I curated my all-natural skincare company The Gifted Glow to help heal via skincare, and as an esthetician, I help to heal people, mind, soul, and body. I’m damn near a therapist. I have a purpose, and with that purpose comes heavy devils that try to come in different forms to throw me off track, but I’ve been through so much at a young age and put myself through so much (things I didn’t have to tolerate but did) that now, not much can phase me. I’m still very much human, but I’m chosen. I’ve been out here solely to heal. I’m one of God’s angels.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
Staying true to who you are and keeping God first. Period. People let money, factors, and different environments change them. Growth is all in the elevation, but never forget who you are in the midst of growing to where you’re going. I think that’s really important.
Pricing:
- Rida thongs $15
Contact Info:
- Website: www.peaceofmindspa.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/tierraxtanai?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TierrxTanai?mibextid=LQQJ4d
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@Tierraxtanai
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0vlyrDZiWFcbHLQAixtsdN
Image Credits
@fortunalph_ @weatherfieldphotography @_squidthekidd_
