Kehlani achieves her first No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs with "Folded," which also jumps into the Hot 100's top 10.

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 ...

Chris Brown occupies the top two spots on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, as "It Depends" reaches No. 1 and "Residuals" rebounds to No. 2.

Major hip-hop acts like NBA Youngboy, Playboi Carti and MGK are scheduled to perform in Music City this fall. Renowned R&B artists, including Raphael Saadiq, Brandy, Monica, and Erykah Badu, also have ...

Less than a week later, the worlds of hip-hop and R&B are still mourning late neo-soul pioneer D’Angelo. With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to highlight some of the best and most interesting new sounds ...

You might say it was Drake, DJ Premier, or Ice Cube. But the real idea of a beat flip starts with the DJ. In the early days of hip-hop—when DJing was the center of the action and park jams at rec ...

Singer-songwriter Graham Barham discusses how Nashville's pop-aimed country interests are bridging country music, hip-hop culture.

Editor's Note: This post was originally published in March 2020 and has been updated for comprehensiveness. Last weekend, Drake released “When To Say When,” an introspective track that utilized the ...

Primarily through direct sampling, hip-hop music provides a blatant tapestry of historical information that the listener can ...

The red carpet at the annual BET Hip-Hop Awards was a curious shade of green this year: money green. It was fitting for the occasion, because nothing comes close to distilling hip-hop's evolution over ...

The show's suspension comes amid broader efforts to curb diversity at the institutional level. The next attempt to canonize ...