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Run the Jewels, RTJ4 | Album Review 💿

Run the Jewels returns with their fourth studio album, the incredibly consistent, well-rounded, and socially conscious RTJ4.

Terrace Martin and Denzel Curry, assisted by Kamasi Washington, G Perico, and Daylyt, deliver a powerful protest track with “Pig Feet.”

Tee Grizzley, Queen Naija & Detroit Youth Choir express their emotions + frustrations with police brutality & racial issues plaguing America.

Country singer Mickey Guyton provides thoughtful commentary on race and celebrates blackness on the moving single, “Black Like Me.”

Trey Songz lends his voice to the movement & protests on racial inequality & injustice with the brilliant “2020 Riots: How Many Times.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ On “Otherside of America,” rapper Meek Mill delivers a socially conscious, protest banger that truly captures racial inequality.

Rapper turned singer G-Eazy is more accessible on his second ‘vocal’ single, “Stan By Me,” set to appear on his album, Everything’s Strange Here.

G-Eazy ‘shocks the world’ with “Free Porn Cheap Drugs,” an about face from rapping to singing in an alternative style.

Alternative singer/songwriter Moses Sumney delivers one of the most ambitious musical projects of 2020 with sophomore album, Græ.

R&B artist Ali Gatie delivers an enjoyable and respectable, if somewhat predictable brief single with “Running on My Mind.”

Mike Hadreas, better known as Perfume Genius, shines on his incredibly artful, fifth studio album, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately.

Robin Thicke makes a nice comeback with “Forever Mine.” He doesn’t necessarily move the needle, but it’s a step in the right direction.