Shatter the Standards

• Album Review: No Rest for the Wicked by AZ Chike | Shatter the Standards
A year after “Peekaboo” put his growl in half the country’s mouth, AZ Chike wraps his major-label debut covering funerals, therapy, and back rent, and the confessions cut deeper than the flexes.

• Album Review: Black Boy (Alternative) by Dahi | Shatter the Standards
A Grammy-winning producer turns his star-studded autobiographical debut album into a study of how Black men route their requests for care through other people.

• Album Review: Organized Rhyme by Fat Joe | Shatter the Standards
With his twelfth album, Fat Joe folds the deaths of his mother, his father, and a brother into the crime talk he has run since Represent, and the grief makes every boast believable.

• Album Review: LOCKED IN by Nemzzz | Shatter the Standards
On LOCKED IN, Nemzzz prices every relationship against the work and never apologizes for it.

• Album Review: Slime Language 3 by Young Stoner Life | Shatter the Standards
Young Thug rebuilds YSL around a restless new class of signees, but a 41-track double-disc compilation leaves its strongest introductions buried beneath too much dead weight.