Shatter the Standards

• Album Review: They Just Ain’t You by Lil Tjay | Shatter the Standards
The Bronx rapper’s first independent album has the writing to say something real. He uses it on maybe five songs.

• Album Review: Kehlani by Kehlani | Shatter the Standards
The Oakland singer turns a relationship that keeps ending into her fifth album. With a stacked guest list, Kehlani sings this record harder than she has, and the writing gives her the range to do it.

• Album Review: Toy With Me by Meghan Trainor | Shatter the Standards
The Nantucket pop singer’s seventh album says “I don’t care” so many times it forgets to say anything else, and borrows Sabrina Carpenter’s playbook without any of the punchlines.

• Album Review: Yo Favorite Trappa Favorite Rappa by Sexyy Red | Shatter the Standards
Her fourth tape is the first that the St. Louis rapper has built like a real mixtape, DJ Holiday hosting throughout and the trapper-rapper distinction collapsing on contact.

• Album Review: 10 Til’ Midnight by Snoop Dogg | Shatter the Standards
The 22nd Snoop record rests on the same premise as its sleeve. He bought Death Row, he is from where he is from, and the kids need to know.

• Album Review: Eusexua by FKA twigs | Shatter the Standards
Sex-beats and playful melodies: The British model and pop enigma FKA twigs experiments with club sounds on ‘Eusexua’—her new album—to heal her soul from abuse.