It’s been 5 years since R&B sweetheart Elle Varner blessed the masses with her debut mixtape Conversational Lush, which was quickly followed by the release her first studio album Perfectly Imperfect.

Elle Varner stopped by the Essence office in New York on Tuesday to give us an early listen to tracks from her forthcoming album 4 Letter Word. When you make your first album, no one has ever heard of ...