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It's new music Friday. I'm here with Ann Powers. Hey Robin. We're doing a quick run through the best albums out on November 20th. We've got new ones from Calliucci's Grand

Daddy in a whole lot more starting with the debut studio album from Megan D. Stallion. It's called Good News.

This is Megan D. Stallion. Her new album is called Good News. The track we're hearing from it that she did with Beyonce is the Savage remix. And NPR music contributor and fellow Megan

Hadi Cristina Lee joins us from Atlanta. Can I be a hottie? You know she's long maintained. There could be hot boys as well as hot girls. So you're in the clear Robin. So Megan told us a year ago in an interview with NPR music Sydney Madden that she felt like the mix tapes she put out so far were just her flirting with her fans and that a studio album felt more like a commitment that she wasn't really ready to make. But now she is ready. It's been a year and the album is finally here.

And what's been amazing about her rise Robin is that through these projects where she is essentially just flirting. She's still managed to basically like change the zeitgeist a couple times over starting with 2018's teen snow. She's then what gone on to do fever where she first introduced this whole idea of a hot girl summer right. And then of course right when everybody sort of settling into self quarantine. We get a tick tock challenge by the way of Savage which then of course gets the Beyonce remix we just heard.

I love what she said about this record that we now have that her purpose is to uplift women or she says to make you feel like that chick.

But she specifically said you you know to her female fans you are amazing already.

I think like her overall hip hop persona has always been like that pet talk to the mirror especially.

And it's amazing to kind of see her own all these different facets of herself. I mean one reason I think that she's so unabashed about even just like her body image for example is because she sort of recognizes that if she's going to get sexualized regardless.

Because of her body type because of the fact that she's a black woman she may as well own up to it more than own up to it. She owns it.

Oh absolutely absolutely.

And she gets into that whole idea of body positivity on this record on a song called body. I know one of the big questions a lot of fans have when they're going into listening to this record is whether or not she gets into the whole Tori lanes incident at all.

Yeah. And as it turns out with the song Stratts Fire she does exactly that. So of course this album comes the same week that R&B singer Tori lanes pleaded not guilty to federal star charges connected to the shooting over the summer of Megan the stallion.

But shots fired is only the latest example right where Megan the stallion has tried to take control of the narrative try to take control of what happened that night explain her side of the situation.

And as we've seen like over the summer she has connected it to this larger narrative over what it means to be a woman of color for those who remember the New York Times op-ed she also wrote.

We could spend the entire show talking about this one record but there a whole bunch we want to get to Megan the stallion her new one is called good news thanks so much Christina thanks so much for having me.

And from Megan the stallion we're going to completely switch gears here and go to the band Mama Larkey and their new self titled album.

We met in the mix of her he teased me like his own daughter and don't know why when I am only when you shine I am a human but he won't believe you shine.

This is the band Mama Larkey their album is called Mama Larkey and the song we're listening to from it is called drugstore model.

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