GENRE: Rap

LABEL: South Coast Music Group/ Interscope

REVIEWED: 14 October, 2025

RATING: 7.4/10

TiaCorine’s CORINIAN is a bold, kaleidoscopic statement that feels like the final form of a playful, shape-shifting persona. Across 17 tracks she leans into glossy pop-rap, frenetic flows and cartoonish production without losing the sly, off-kilter personality that made her an underground favorite. The album’s vibrant sonic palette from horn-stabbing throwbacks to syrupy, late-night grooves — supports her most confident delivery yet. 

Standouts land with immediate charisma: the horn-driven swagger of “Buttercup,” the early-’90s nostalgia of “Lotion” (feat. Flo Milli), and the Saweetie-assisted “Pretty,” which nails the balance between radio polish and Tia’s eccentric edge. Her collaborations are high-profile and generally complementary — Saweetie, Flo Milli, JID and Smino add texture — though a few features occasionally dilute the intimacy of her strongest solo moments. 

Lyrically she vacillates between braggadocio and sudden vulnerability, but it’s her vocal choices and production experiments that keep the album interesting: pitched vocal stutters, sudden tempo shifts, and beats that switch moods mid-bar. These choices make CORINIAN feel less like a single-mood project and more like a mixtape-meets-concept piece anchored by a pink, hyperreal world she’s been building. 

Where the album stumbles is in its length and occasional sequencing — a few mid-album cuts blur together and could’ve benefited from trimming, yet the highs are high enough to justify the ride. In sum, CORINIAN is a confident, sometimes messy, frequently exhilarating step forward for TiaCorine: an accessible record that still refuses to be boxed in. Worth multiple listens.