West Coast rapper Yeat's latest album follows his 2024 standout 2093 and more predictable LYFESTYLE. The Needle Drop praises Yeat's trajectory and past experimentation with rage, industrial, and dance but criticizes ADL for falling short of ambitious promises made in a Zane Lowe interview, questioning his self-awareness.[theneedledrop.com](https://theneedledrop.com/album-reviews/yeat-adl-album-review/)

Chief Keef's new album features intricate production with flitting keyboards, sticky 808s, and unexpected flourishes on drill sounds. Pitchfork notes solid good songs and growth as a producer but says it lacks the ambition and thrilling highs of his 2024 releases like Dirty Nachos and Almighty So 2.[pitchfork.com](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/chief-keef-skeletor/)

RAYE's second album is curated melancholy through jazz, orchestral pop, and R&B with melodramatic flair and baroque maximalism. Pitchfork highlights her range, inconvenient 73-minute sprawl across 17 tracks, and post-label independence assertion, turning despair into beautiful, theatrical heartbreak.[pitchfork.com](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/raye-this-music-may-contain-hope/)

Slayyyter's fourth album swerves into club antagonism with vile, explicit hyperpop, doubling down on misbehavior while showing vulnerability. Pitchfork calls it her best yet with fresh urgency, reinvention via Y2K hedonism and jagged edges, better than past taxing trashiness.[pitchfork.com](https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/slayyyter-worst-girl-in-america/)

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