Jill Scott’s To Whom This May Concern arrives like a decade’s worth of living pressed into one record. After an 11-year gap since Woman, Scott has described the new album as fueled by real life—grief, parenting, and the work of getting “better than I was before”—and she promises “a lot of soul, a lot of passion, a lot of honesty in this music.”
Across 19 tracks, the album moves with bandleader confidence: openers that talk slick, mid-tempo grooves that let her phrasing land like spoken-word, and big, communal choruses built for live rooms. Apple Music’s notes spotlight the horn-stab funk of “Be Great” and a scene-setting intro where Maha Adachi Earth declares, “I be good/I do dope shit.” Still, the features keep the set contemporary—Tierra Whack, Too $hort, Ab-Soul, and JID among them—without diluting Scott’s center. The album released via Blues Babe with distribution credited to Human Re Sources/The Orchard.
