Tierra Whack is back. But in the first video from her new mixtape the relentlessly creative and playful hip hop star has torn up her own rulebook.

The Philadelphia rapper usually couches her quirky lyrical preoccupations in appropriately comic and surreal ways in her videos - and always in vibrant colour. The promo for Wax Paper, directed by child., is just as creative, but for Tierra also completely new. Most strikingly, it’s black and white - with the emphasis on the black.

Shot in nighttime in Philly’s north side neighbourhood, this is honouring both the the place and its residents but also the classic form of the hip hop video, set on a rapper’s home patch. Child brings the dreamlike quality that characterises much of their work, and a really heightened visual sensibility kicks in, so it becomes the most silvery monochromatic version possible of this kind of video. Black and white Tierra is not so immediately visible as full colour Tierra but in her way just as memorable.

Beautifully made, with great portraiture, fantastic cinematography by Liam Reardon, it’s consummate work by child. and a brilliant (and unexpected) addition to the Tierra Whack canon.