The album garnered mostly positive reception from music critics, who found that it showed Luckett's individuality, while some called the project disjointed and generic.

[4][3] After a prospective partnership with Roberson in a new girl group called Angel fell through, Luckett and her mother established Lady Elle, a clothing and accessory boutique in Houston.

[3] Luckett worked with producers Scott Storch, Jazze Pha, Just Blaze and Jermaine Dupri on material for LeToya, while co-writing nine of the album's 16 songs.

"[11] Entertainment Weekly's Raymond Fiore found that "on her solo debut, the 25-year-old Houston native forgoes musical risk and lets hitmakers like Jermaine Dupri, Just Blaze, and Scott Storch ensure that almost every urban-radio formula – from a Southern club-rattler to a Mariah-like midtempo love jam – is represented on the self-titled Letoya.

This album has a voice of its own, nipping and tucking club tracks and slouchy love songs into a cohesive whole that reminds you Destiny's Child was a long time ago.

On the album's other half, LeToya proves her hometown pride but loses the vibe by collaborating [...] on a series of underbaked, disjointed club tracks.

"[12] Vibe editor Tiffany McGee felt that "at times so-so songwriting overstates monotonous find-love/lose-love plotlines, and the production occasionally overwhelms her feisty, yet not forceful falsetto.

But Mike Jones, Slim Thug, and Paul Wall liven up the set as LeToya finally fulfills her destiny as a solo songbird.

"[17] Now critic Jason Richards called LeToya a "really boring solo disc" as well as "a wellspring of clichés",[10] while Wendy Martin from The Skinny summed the project as a "slickly produced album [with] good backing singers, and a selection of male rappers.