The album was first announced on
Robert Van Winkle's
Twitter account under the title
Yesterday Is History, Tomorrow Is A Mystery, scheduled for an initial 2009 release on
StandBy Records. The album was completed in February 2010, and it was announced that its new title would be
WTF, an
initialism for
Wisdom, Tenacity and Focus. On May 17, 2010, the album's track listing was revealed through Van Winkle's official website. The album was officially released on Radium Records as a
digital download through
Amazon MP3 and
iTunes on August 30, 2011. The album has since been released on CD by Radium Records following the success of his reality show
The Vanilla Ice Project. ==Music==