TiaCorine & Wiz Khalifa “Was Hannin” Video
Today, shapeshifting North Carolina phenomenon TiaCorine releases the official music video for her swaggering funk-rap single “Was Hannin” featuring Wiz Khalifa.
The party-starting cut is a clear standout from her bold and widely acclaimed album CORINIAN, out now on Interscope Records — revisit the full set HERE.
As the new video picks up, we find Tia backstage at a strip club, prepping alongside two other dancers. While a splitscreen shows Wiz clearing security on his way in the door, not all is as it seems. He makes it rain while the women do their thing, but justice is coming for the venue’s menacing owner in a plot twist that’s equal parts heist film, mob movie, and revenge flick.
“Was Hannin” is unlike anything else in Tia’s catalog and Wiz Khalifa adds to it — a grooving track propelled by glowing synths, rubbery bass, and sharp percussion produced by boysarerolling, Owdji, and vito (Destroy Lonely, Joey Bada$$, ian). She holds court with a melodic confidence worthy of Anderson .Paak, chant-singing, “Freaky, nasty, she a lil’ cutie with a booty, what’s hannin’?” Wiz coolly slides into the mix on the same wavelength, bringing the bars and punchlines with him.
Full of stylistic swerves and packed with an array of rap risk-takers — including Saweetie, Flo Milli, Smino, J.I.D, and Pouya — CORINIAN has racked up much acclaim. Pitchfork dubbed the set to an Album You Should Listen to Now and, in a separate review, noted, “The North Carolina rapper keeps things unpredictable on [a] daring project that never slows down.” Following a glossy multi-page feature in HYPETRAK Magazine, HYPEBEAST wrote, “TiaCorine takes on her fully realized final form [on] her most polished, honed-in project to date.” And Rolling Out called her “one of the most creative voices in new music.” She appeared in XXL’s print edition, too.
CORINIAN’s growing collection of music videos hasn’t disappointed either. “Lotion” featuring Flo got a kawaii-fied clip with a side of magic, while “Backyard” featuring J.I.D turned into a chaotic chase flick. Before that came the romantic round-the-way visual for “Fall in Love” and the fittingly far-out Lyrical Lemonade treatment for “Ironic.” Meanwhile, drill-meets-ballroom club cut “ATE” arrived alongside a video that includes vogue performances. She also shared the prismatic “Different Color Stones,” and a vivid, anime-inspired trailer for the album itself.
As Tia has explained, CORINIAN is a culmination of a trilogy that includes 2024’s Almost There EP and her 2022 debut album I Can’t Wait, which includes her RIAA-certified Gold breakout hit “FreakyT,” a fiery flex-fest that inspired a viral dance and soared up the Urban Mainstream and Billboard Hip Hop/R&B charts. In between, she made the XXL Freshman Class — an honor that she’s more than made good on since across tours and festival appearances alike (Dreamville, Rolling Loud, Coachella), and a kaleidoscopic body of work that includes some stunning collabs.
Most recently, TiaCorine has laid down scene-stealing verses on Chance the Rapper’s “Gun in Yo Purse” featuring Young Thug, Jordan Ward’s “CARSEX,” and as a member of the newly revealed supergroup The Scythe alongside Denzel Curry, A$AP Ferg, Bktherula, and Key Nyata.