Houston native Lebra Jolie packs Better Than Yesterday full of her typical brash swagger and assertive sexuality. There’s the confident and pounding “I8”; the sexy, smooth and somewhat raunchy “Cowgirl”; the syrupy salute to her hometown “Houston Huzz”; and the energetic and cheeky “Girl Math”. Miami’s Trina forcefully jumps on the emphatic “Don’t Panic” and Diamond adds her flavour to the remix of the previously released “F’in Wit Me”. It’s not all sex and power, though. Jolie morphs her bars into introspection and gratitude, too. Take “Grandma’s House”, a slow-burn, vulnerable confessional: “Nobody will know all that shit I really hid/All my feelings came from trauma, I been holding that shit for years.” And perhaps it’s the simple, conversational flow of opener “My All” that best describes the rapper’s ethos on Better Than Yesterday: “Everything I go through, swear to God, shit be worth it/Them sacrifices, I put in work/Breaking generational curses.”