Listen to new must-hear R&B/hip-hop songs from artists like Halle & Chloe Bailey, Shenseea, Mariah the Scientist, The BLK LT$, RZA, and Queen Naija.

Listen to new must-hear songs from emerging R&B/hip-hop artists like Bryson Tiller, Elmiene, Kehlani, Karri, Hit-Boy, BVNGS and HeadHuncho Amir.

Luther Vandross didn’t just sing love songs. He invented the kind of vocals that make you want to text your ex, light a candle, and dramatically stare out a window all at once. While Vandross is ...

On the R&B side of things, Brandy put a special spin on Kehlani‘s buzzy hit “Folded,” which recently became the highest-charting solo song of her career on the Billboard Hot 100 (No. 34, chart dated ...

Love Island USA Season 7 is winding down, and the connections are finally starting to crystallize. The stakes are higher and whether you’re team Ace and Chelley or watching “America” stir the pot from ...

After wrapping the last century on a high note that only Mariah Carey’s vocal cords could challenge, R&B and hip-hop’s contributions to the musical canon swelled in the first 25 years of the 21st ...

The SZA-assisted hit topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for 13 weeks, but its potential successors in the genre were ...

Roy Ayers, the towering jazz figure, passed away on Tuesday, March 4, at 84. Hip-Hop Wired has put together eight essential songs from Ayers. Roy Ayers, the towering jazz legend whose songs ...

These days, it feels like TV shows barely have time for a theme song before jumping into the action—sometimes it’s just a quick title card and a few seconds of music, or it's simply nonexistent. But ...