When people refer to an individual album as a "body of work"

A "body of work" is defined as follows:

*noun*

**the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)**

It is NOT simply a single album from an artist. It would be their whole discography.

We can blame retired rapper and current hip-hop podcaster Joe Budden for popularizing the phrase on hip-hop Twitter. Now everyone thinks it's a synonym for an album and they try to sound enlightened by saying it.

Examples straight from Twitter:

"J. Cole outdid himself on this album. A thorough, carefully curated body of work."

"Friday Night Lights is Cole’s best body of work"

"50 cent the massacre was a super slept on body of work"

We gotta do better as a people. Words and phrases have meaning. You can't just make up new definitions all willy nilly.