Laila's Wisdom

The album is Rapsody's first following her signing with Roc Nation in 2016, and follows her mixtape Crown (2016). Rapsody has previously collaborated with several of the guests on the record, including Kendrick Lamar, who she collaborated with on the track "Complexion (A Zulu Love)" from Lamar's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly, Lamar also rapped on the track "Rock the Bells" from her 2011 mixtape For Everything. In early September, Rapsody released "You Should Know", featuring Busta Rhymes, as the first single from the album. In an Instagram post, Rhymes called the album "the best album I've heard not only from a female MC but in Hip hop period as well that I've personally had a chance to hear from top to bottom in its entirety that I've probably in the last 10yrs ". The guest appearances for the album were revealed in a video featuring Rapsody in a mural surrounded by the guests that appear on the record. ==Critical reception==

''Laila's Wisdom'' received widespread acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 87, based on seven reviews. ==Track listing==

Notes • Amber Navaran, Max Bryk, and Andris Mattison are collectively credited as Moonchild, their band name, for their feature on "Nobody". ==Personnel==

• Rapsody – lead vocals (all tracks), engineering (tracks 3–4, 6, 12) • 9th Wonder – engineering (tracks 1–2, 5–14), recording arranger (tracks 2–14), additional vocals (tracks 6–7, 10) • Anderson .Paak – additional vocals (tracks 7, 13) • Black Thought – additional vocals (track 7) • Gwen Bunn – vocals, vocal arranger (track 10) • Busta Rhymes – vocals (track 9, additional on 5) • Coup de Grace – guitar, piano, recording arranger (track 9) • Eric G – recording arranger (track 9) • Ka$h Don't Make Beats – engineering (track 4) • Khrysis – engineering (tracks 4, 12–13) • Terrace Martin – keyboards (tracks 2, 6, 11, 13, additional on 1, 4–5, 7, 9–10, 12), recording arranger (tracks 2, 4–8, 10–13), saxophone (tracks 10–11), synthesizer (track 10), vocals (track 11) • Merna – additional vocals (track 9) • Musiq Soulchild – additional vocals (track 10) • Amber Navaran – vocals (tracks 7, 14) • Max Bryk – keyboards (track 7) • Andris Mattison – keyboards (track 7) • James Poyser – keyboards (tracks 3, 5) • Taylor Jon Shepard – additional keyboards (tracks 1, 4) • Heather Victoria – additional vocals (track 4) • Marlon Williams – string arranger (tracks 2, 5–6, 8), guitar, recording arranger (track 4) • Young Guru – engineering (tracks 5, 10) ==Charts==