Listen to new must-hear songs from R&B/hip-hop artists like Doechii, Jill Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, SZA, DaBaby, YKNieve, BunnaB, Fetty P Franklin & Trim.

The R&B world suffered its share of heartbreak and loss in 2025. The genre lost multiple legendary performers, but it was hit hard by the loss of some who were lost far too soon. While all death is ...

R&B icon Don Bryant, who died Dec. 26, had returned to the spotlight in recent years with releases that earned him his first ...

Let the sunshine in: After a decade of chilly trap beats and freaky club tales, the tide is turning on the genre's dominant sound. R&B has died many hypothetical deaths, with just as many premortem ...

R&B has died many hypothetical deaths, with just as many premortem autopsies. Every few years there is hemming and hawing about the state of things, and even the rebuttals have caveats: R&B isn't dead ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...