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 ...

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, which emerged from the streets of New York City in the late 1970s, has grown into a global cultural phenomenon. Its influence extends far beyond its own genre, permeating various musical ...

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 ...

The Grammy winner joins Charlie Puth and Brandi Carlile as part of the game’s pre-show performers. Nowadays, the relationship between rap and R&B is a hand-in-glove fit, a match that feels like it has ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.