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Awards season is in full swing. Just a week after the Caribbean Music Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards mounted their ...
As the first fall breezes start to drift across New York City, Billboard helped usher out the summer season with its annual R ...
Billboard has released their ‘Top R&B/Hip-Hop Artist of the 21st Century’ list. The list features Drake at the top spot, while Post Malone is in the 11th spot.
The Memphis maven joins Cardi B and Nicki Minaj as the only female rappers with a half-dozen No. 1s on the radio ranking with ...
Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums of the 21st Century recap reflects performance on weekly Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts dated Jan. 1, 2000, through Dec. 28, 2024.
Jon B opened up about working with Nas on “Finer Things,” his Hip-Hop influences, and why his new album Waiting on You proves ...
At some point this century, all of the R&B heartthrobs had to make an adjustment. There's no pinpointing the exact moment, but you can see the gears in motion in 2012, when hip-hop's influence on ...
Here are the producers with the most No. 1s on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in the first quarter of the century, part of Billboard’s yearlong retrospective.
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 ...
Hip-hop is a feeling. When I was growing up, I didn’t want to be the Shakiras, the J-Los, and the R&B artists; I wanted to be ...
Rumors of a possible relationship between Drake and Taylor Swift started circulating a few weeks ago, and the reaction on social media was swift and merciless. Now The Sun, a British newspaper known ...
Unfortunately, the Grammy nominations are here, which means more complaints from music fans about their favorite artists getting snubbed from the award show. Fortunately, I’m one of those fans and I’m ...