In Brief
*** Paperboy, “The Nine Yards,” Next Plateau/Polygram. The 20-year-old L.A. rapper delivers a rump-shaking debut album that walks the delicate line between pop and street without compromising either. “The Nine Yards” is chock full of summery grooves, showing that there’s more to like about Paperboy than his tongue-twisting radio smash “Ditty.”
New albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor) to four (excellent).
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