Isaiah Rashad ’s new album title is hardly subtle: ‘It’s Been Awful’. Then again, his records have always been frank about life’s tough moments. From acclaimed 2016 debut ‘The Sun’s Tirade’ to 2021’s ‘The House Is Burning’, Rashad has long been the quiet outlier of Top Dawg Entertainment: woozy, moody and unwaveringly introspective, blending laidback Southern rap with neo- soul and jazz while continuously mining introspective terrain his labelmates only occasionally touched. READ MORE: Villanelle are becoming rock’n’roll stars in their own grungy image His last album followed a tumultuous stretch of homelessness and rehab, and after another five-year wait, Rashad’s third full-length arrives out of an equally bruising period: relapses, family fractures and an abrupt loss of privacy after a 2022 sex tape leak. Opening track ‘The New Sublime’ addresses all of this headfirst: “Feel afflicted, falling over / Ask me who I’m fucking, I been fucking up” .…