TiaCorine ft Flo Milli – Lotion

Today, North Carolina rap phenom TiaCorine follows up her bold new album, CORINIAN, with a reality-bending music video for the single “Lotion” featuring Alabama star Flo Milli and production by Kenny Beats.

Upbeat and chock full of lyrical flexes, the track embodies the irrepressible and unpredictable energy of the LP.

“Lotion” puts Tia’s brash, style-shifting confidence on full display. The song is a blistering ’80s freestyle throwback complete with keyboard percussion, rubbery bass, and stuttering drums, but our heroine struts over the sweat-inducing beat with athletic ease: “Now this is how it goes for ones who don’t know / So I came from the Tre with thugs and fake hoes / Glitz, glamor, fashion, gold is all ya girl know / But I came from the bottom and chose the high road.”

Directed by Dell Nie (Ty Dolla $ign, Bia, Saweetie), the “Lotion” video is bright, cinematic, and surreal. Extending CORINIAN’s otherworldly theme, it opens on a pink moon before we’re transported to Tia’s very kawaii-coded bedroom. She starts her day normally enough: primping, applying lotion, stretching — before she’s interrupted by a knock at the door. A confrontation with three unwelcome women ends when Tia twists her fingers, reducing them to Barbie-like dolls. After a cameo from Unghetto, Flo Milli shows up and accompanies Tia to a house party, where the pair spit bars and spread joy while finding time to torment the toys on the side.

The “Lotion” clip is only the latest in a series of wild, psychedelic visuals to emerge from CORINIAN. Most recently, Tia shared the chaotic chase flick for the booming “Backyard” featuring J.I.D. Before that came the romantic round-the-way visual for “Fall in Love” and “Ironic,” a trippy track that got a fittingly far-out video courtesy of Lyrical Lemonade. Meanwhile, the drill-meets-ballroom club cut “ATE” came with a distinct video version that includes vogue performances and musical contributions from Jus10 and Byrell The Great

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