As happens with most music genres, reports of R&B's demise have always been underconsidered and premature. Still, the question's recurrence lately has hinted at broader concerns about its evolutionary ...

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Lily Massie and SAHXL. After he was sentenced to four years in prison for his prostitution convictions just a few weeks ago (Oct. 3 ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 — after the Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski — check out three R&B/hip-hop top 10s. By Keith Caulfield The full list of Billboard’s 2025 year-end ...

What happens when music fans discover their new go-to praise and worship song, only for the song to be made by an AI-artist? That’s the feeling some gospel fans are having as Solomon Ray, an ...

Legendary R&B singler D'Angelo died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed in a statement. He was 51 years old. Has a case for best song The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, ...

D’Angelo, whose cool tunes and one hot music video turned him a legend of neo-soul, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 51. “The shining star of our family has dimmed his light ...

Now that we're halfway into the 2020s, it's safe to say that R&B is still in a solid place. While some fans are still holding on to the claims of how much they miss the '90s and 2000s sounds, some ...

The 1970s was an interesting time in regard to how the masses chose to label music genres. During this decade, R&B was used as an all-encompassing term to group the styles of soul, funk, and disco.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- One of Raleigh's most iconic cultural events returned with the new 2025 Raleigh Wide Open Music Festival, which took place Friday and Saturday. The free two-day festival built ...

Seventeen million streams in two months. A multimillion-dollar record deal. A Billboard-charting single. These are the kinds of stats that typically belong to breakout human stars. But today they ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced the return of the Rise Up NYC summer concert series, which will provide 10 free outdoor concerts to New Yorkers across all five boroughs this ...