Zealous.

Summer 2018 has to go in the history books for being the best time for Hip-Hop and R&B in nearly a decade. Many big names dropped heavily anticipated projects that delivered the hype. Even a couple of upcoming artist dropped projects that definitely gained a wider audience’s attention. There has been so much new music released that I haven’t even had the pleasure of listening to everything that dropped. However, I have listened to a few critically acclaimed projects and I’m sharing my favorites. They all give out different types of vibes and I’m going to tell you the perfect summer situation to listen to them in. (Disclaimer!! These are not thorough album reviews of each project. I am simply giving a synopsis of each album and throwing my two cents in.) Redemption by Jay Rock Jay Rock is apart of the TDE family which houses many big names in Hip-Hop and R&B such as Kendrick Lamar, SZA, and Schoolboy Q. Rock has been one of the lesser known faces of the labe...

Photo by  Kinga Cichewicz  on  Unsplash Good vibes only. This is a popular mantra. For the most part, it is a good one. I mean, no one wants to be around bad vibes. People want to feel good and be surrounded by positive energy. After all, what you focus on is what you attract right? However, sometimes it's hard to focus on the positive when you find yourself in a bad situation. So can anyone be truly positive or have ‘good vibes’ all the time? Sometimes life sucks. There's no easy way to get around it. Nevertheless, I’m a believer that everything happens for a reason. However, that doesn’t change the fact that in some situations it's nearly impossible to try and find positive in the situation. Maybe you are going through a break up with someone you thought was the love of your life, maybe you failed a big test that could mess up your whole future, maybe you are grieving the loss of a loved one. In instances like these, it's hard to sprinkle positivity on it a...