Bieber’s catalog includes collaborations with artists like Ludacris, Nas, and SZA, spanning multiple eras of his career. His genre-blending features reflect a shift from pop beginnings to deeper ...

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 ...

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.

Hip-hop’s takeover of R&B over the past decade altered its sound as soul artists aggressively pulled away from the genre’s conventional boundaries and embraced rap. Given the boys’ club culture of rap ...

At this year’s Grammy Awards in February, the narrative was tightly focused on rap’s prominence among nominees in the major categories after historically being overlooked. So when Bruno Mars, one of ...

Alphonse Pierre’s Off the Dome column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, scenes, snippets, movies, Meek Mill tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches his attention. This week, Alphonse ...

Apple has appointed a new global editorial head for Apple Music specializing in hip-hop and R&B, with radio personality Ebro Darden leading the team curating tracks and handling new album and song ...

Daniel Caesar attains his first No. 1 on Billboard 's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Son of Spergy begins atop the list dated Nov. 8. The set, released on Oct. 24 through Hollace/Republic Records, ...

Dive into the world of alternative Hip Hop and explore how it relates to rap and R&B. Hosts Arthur and Linda dive into the world of alternative Hip Hop and explore how it relates to rap and R&B, ...

Here's who produced the most No. 1s on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the first quarter of the century, as part of Billboard's yearlong retrospective. After wrapping the last century on a high note that ...