Jan. 21 is a day that has witnessed numerous transformative events whose impact can still be felt in the hip-hop world.

From MPCs to FL Studio sessions, one thing remains consistent across generations of Hip Hop and R&B: The power of the sample. With that said, few eras have been mined more heavily than the 1980s. With ...

Thanksgiving week is historically a pretty slow week for new music, but that didn’t stop the hip-hop and R&B worlds from chugging through the rest of the calendar year. On Sunday night (Nov. 26), Keke ...

Welcome to The State of R&B, ESSENCE’s look at the past, present and future of rhythm and blues. In this piece, ESSENCE editor Rivéa Ruff reports on the blending of hip-hop and R&B. Since the ...

Earl Sweatshirt is back with his first new sing over a year and you can read more about it here. RICO NASTY – “MONEY” (ft. FLO MILLI, prod. BOYS NOIZE) Rico Nasty teams with Flo Milli and producer ...

2025 ASCAP TOP RHYTHM & SOUL MUSIC AWARD WINNERS INCLUDE R&B/HIP-HOP AND RAP SONG OF THE YEAR "NOT LIKE US,"GOSPEL SONG OF THE YEAR "THAT'S MY KING," SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR OZ AND PUBLISHER OF THE ...

After welcoming around 40,000 attendees to Discovery Park in Sacramento last year, R&B, new soul and hip-hop music festival Sol Blume will return to Sacramento for a fourth year on April 29 and 30. An ...

CBUS Soul Fest is returning Downtown to Genoa Park this summer, bringing with it a day of good food, good music and a whole lot of soul. Now in its third year, the festival, hosted by the Columbus ...

The Sol Blume R&B, soul, and hip-hop music festival returned to Sacramento on Saturday, with an expected 40,000 attendees and more than 30 artists on stage over the two-day event in Discovery Park.

Let’s say you like R&B, funk, Latin jazz, soul, hip-hop. You like savoring bites from Milwaukee food trucks or checking out local artisans, makers and vendors. Well, there’s just the festival for you.

Jan. 18 is not just any ordinary day in R&B and hip-hop. It’s a day associated with some of the most transformative events in ...