Doin’ Lines
TiaCorine fills in the blanks.
As Told To: Joey Echevarria
Editor’s Note: This story appears in the Fall 2025 issue of XXL Magazine, on newsstands now and available for sale on the XXL website.
1. If I wasn’t an artist, I would get to the bag by being a physician’s assistant. I have a degree in exercise physiology.
2. Being a mother has taught me how to communicate my emotions better and how to be more loving.
3. My best form of self-care is cutting people off, but I should do more of actually having a conversation instead of just walking away.
4. Talking to my mom is the way I connect most with my Native American heritage because she was born on an Indian reservation.
5. My heritage is also Japanese, and I really want to learn the language. That’s definitely on the list of things I need to do before I die.
6. R&B soul is a genre I would like to incorporate more into my music.
7. If it wasn’t for social media, I would speak my mind a lot more. I hold myself back because I don’t want to get canceled. I don’t want to hurt anybody either.
8. I live in North Carolina now, but if I could up and move to Japan, I would. Immediately. I’m gone.
9. My favorite anime is Inuyasha, but Death Note and Parasyte: The Maxim are dope, too.
10. If I was a superhero, I would be Spider-Man so that I can just get up and go. I’m outta here, or I could just pick somebody up. Be like, “You’re outta here.”
11. When I touch down in North Carolina, the first person I think of is Zoe, my daughter. She just gives me so much joy.
12. I can’t wait for more recognition as an artist, and I know I’m almost there because it’s a timing thing and I’m ready.
13. When it’s all said and done, I want to be remembered for just being a good person and really holding on to good values.
14. Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” is what I dance to when no one is watching.
15. I laugh every time I think about this one SpongeBob episode where he put one ice cube in the drink instead of two because it’s just f**king hilarious.
16. I know it’s time to cut ties when somebody triggers something in the past that made me crash out. It’s like, I’ve had that button touched before, and I know what it does.
17. My sense of fashion is most inspired by my inner childhood.
18. My most memorable interaction with a fan was when I got proposed to after a Key Glock show.
19. My biggest dream collab is Tyler, The Creator and we might create a new f**king genre on a song together.
20. Sade’s Love Deluxe is the one album I could play nonstop while stranded on an island for a year.
The fall 2025 issue of XXL magazine featuring TiaCorine’s interview is available to purchase here. The issue also includes Joey Bada$$ and J.I.D’s cover story interviews, conversations with Chance The Rapper, Rob49, Curren$y, Hit-Boy, Wallo267, Bay Swag, KenTheMan, Hanumankind, Babyfxce E, Ghostface Killah, KenTheMan, Hurricane Wisdom, Conway The Machine, Pluto, Isaiah Falls, comedian Josh Joshson, Vice President of Music at SiriusXM and Pandora Joshua “J1” Raiford, a look at the change in album rollouts over the years highlighted by Clipse’s Let God Sort Em Out album and more.
See Photos From Joey Bada$$ and J.I.D’s XXL Magazine Fall 2025 Cover Shoot
