Raheem DeVaughn The Love & War MasterPeace

Explaining why he chose to give his third studio album such an overreaching title, Raheem DeVaughn said, "I named the album The Love & War MasterPeace because I feel that where I am as a person and where we are as a people, we are all trying to master that internal peace and happiness in a very strange time."

Well, that's a boring and vague explanation, so let's have fun and assume instead that it's an allusion to Tolstoy. Might DeVaughn's next album be titled The Death of Ivan Illestshit?

The Love & War MasterPeace also features guest appearances by Ludacris, Wale, Mailk Yusef, Jill Scott, Bilal, Anthony Hamilton, Chrisette Michele, Ledisi, Citizen Cope, Dwele, Chico DeBarge, and Dr. Cornell West.

Abstract by Matthew Richardson