Cuz I Love You by Lizzo

Cuz I Love You, Lizzo's third album and her major-label debut, came out on April 19, 2019, through Nice Life and Atlantic, and it's the sound of a singer who cut her teeth in the Minneapolis hip-hop scene deciding she's a pop star and refusing to wait for permission. She raps, she belts, she struts, and every song leans on her sheer force of personality as much as on its hooks, from the brassy bounce of "Juice" to the big-lunged title track. Missy Elliott drops in on "Tempo", and Gucci Mane turns up too.

It climbed to number four on the Billboard 200, and the deluxe edition that followed on May 3 folded in "Good as Hell" and "Truth Hurts", the slow-burning single that finally hit number one on the Hot 100 two years after its first release. That version was up for Album of the Year at the Grammys and took home Best Urban Contemporary Album.

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