This year, Kehlani turned 30 after spending more than a decade flying — and at times flailing — in the public eye as one of R ...

In the '00s, burnt CDs were the love letters of the day. Revisit three 2005-released songs that were staples on custom CDs.

Music creates mood. Even when looking at the same scenery, a sad melody in the background can inject a sense of tragedy. If ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

There’s a right way to love Tems, and it starts with sacrifice. On Love Is a Kingdom, she says “mine” (as in, “You’re mine”) a total of 69 times—70 if you count the one-off “you not mine.” Most of ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

Catch up on recent releases from Robyn, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mavis Staples and more.

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Awich and Tia Ray. Last weekend, F1 went hip-hop with superstars Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Travis Scott descending upon Sin City for the ...