To hear Isaiah Rashad tell it, he’s both a junkie and a prophet, a boyfriend and a girlfriend, a porno-loving sex addict and a father who’s “grown up for my child’s sake.” Since his 2014 debut Cilvia Demo —an unsung classic, one of the best rap projects of the 2010s—he’s become a contradictory and complex character, one moment banging his chest and sending warning shots to “bitch-ass rappers” everywhere, the next sticking a gun in his mouth and relapsing on liquor and benzos. But Rashad renders even the most harrowing scenes with levity and warmth. He recounts his traumas and triumphs in largely the same register—his scratchy sing-song flow that slides and swings over beats that draw as much from ’90s neo-soul as they do from the annals of Southern rap. “We done went through a lot of emotions,” he says during an end-of-song outro on his new album, the aptly titled IT’S BEEN AWFUL.…