God Gotta Afro & Gold Hoops

Apple Juice landed as a D'Angelo homage, and the question then was whether one gorgeous single was a mood or a thesis. Sixteen tracks answers it. The ownership structure is the clearest one on Friday's slate: her imprint, her masters, Roc Nation on distribution and license rather than acquisition. That is why the album can run this long and why nobody was in the room asking for a radio record. Mr. Porter produced or co-produced most of it, Madlib took The Peejaays, and the title came out of a drive across Ghana where every gospel station Rapsody found sounded whitewashed to her. Give it the full run, because her albums do not reveal themselves on shuffle.