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Wednesday Roundups #106: 22 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

R&B Groups That Never Came to Fruition

The Understated Influence of Three 6 Mafia

Album Review: Tether by Annahstasia

Milestones: Fantastic, Vol. 2 by Slum Village

Album Review: Victory by Slick Rick

New Music Drops: June 13, 2025

Chlöe x Halle Share Their Ungodly Hour, Heavenly Growth: From Halo to After-Hours

Anniversaries: Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey

Our Tribute to Ananda Lewis (1973-2025)

Wednesday Roundups #105: 21 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

Let’s Have an Unfiltered Dialogue About Black Music Award Shows

Our Tribute to Sly Stone (1943-2025)

Can R&B Artists Stop Hopping On the Afrobeats Wave?

Album Review: The Co-Star by Eric Benét

Milestones: The Heat Is On by The Isley Brothers

Album Review: Tha Carter VI by Lil Wayne

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 (So Far…)

New Music Drops: June 6, 2025

Album Review: Lotus by Little Simz

Wednesday Roundups #104: 19 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Best Rap Music of 2025 (So Far…)

Quiet Cuts, Loud Consequences for Black Music

The Best R&B Music of 2025 (So Far…)

The Handguide to ‘70s Funk Albums (Beginners Edition)

May 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month

New Music Drops: May 30, 2025

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist Created Alfredo With Pasta Sauce and Powder Residue

Wednesday Roundups #103: 20 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

Kendrick Lamar & SZA Close SoFi Stadium Trilogy in 50-Plus Song Blaze (Concert Review)

How Sacha Jenkins Rewrote the Culture

Milestones: Be by Common

Milestones: The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem

Milestones: Lucy Pearl by Lucy Pearl

New Music Drops: May 23, 2025

Milestones: Adventures In Paradise by Minnie Riperton

Milestones: Diana by Diana Ross

Wednesday Roundups #102: 25 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Most Disrespected, Unprotected, and Neglected Person In America Is the Black Woman

Anniversaries: The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe

Anniversaries: Distant Relatives by Nas & Damian Marley

Album Review: Sincerely, by Kali Uchis

The Handguide to Backwoodz Studioz

New Music Drops: May 16, 2025

Joey Bada$$ Fires Back at Ray Vaughn On “The Finals”

Ray Vaughn Wasted No Time Getting at Joey Bada$$ With “Hoe Era”

Wednesday Roundups #101: 20 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

Deciphering Big Sean, Joey Bada$$, and Ab-Soul’s Red Bull Spiral Freestyle

Album Review: Glockaveli by Key Glock

Kehlani Faces a Chorus of Censorship Over Gaza Stance

Deciphering King Los’ Justin Credible’s Freestyle Series (#193)

New Music Drops: May 9, 2025

Album Review: Golliwog by billy woods

Wednesday Roundups #100: 19 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

What Is the Black Panther?

Mo’ Love, Mo’ Problem, Mo’ Bashin’

New Music Drops: May 2, 2025

Wednesday Roundups #99: 23 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

April 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month

Revisiting the Year 1978 in R&B

Album Review: The Crown by Ledisi

Album Review: The Good, The Bad & The Dollar Menu by Ray Vaughn

Milestones: The Infamous by Mobb Deep

New Music Drops: April 25, 2025

Album Review: Why Not More? by Coco Jones

Wednesday Roundups #98: 13 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Miles Davis and Roy Ayers

R&B Albums That Basically Counts As Going to Therapy

Album Review: 10 by SAULT

Album Review: We Need to Talk: Love by Keri Hilson

New Music Drops: April 18, 2025

EP Review: When (EP) by Alex Isley

Wednesday Roundups #97: 20 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, and Minnie Riperton

Album Review: Audience With the Queen by Galactic & Irma Thomas

Milestones: The Emancipation of Mimi by Mariah Carey

New Music Drops: April 11, 2025

Wednesday Roundups #96: 17 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Roberta Flack, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday

New Music Drops: April 4, 2025

Wednesday Roundups #95: 25 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

Album Review: SILK&SORROW by Ray Lozano

The Handguide to the Ladies of Hip-Hop

I Came to Save a Thing Called Female Rap

March 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month

Milestones: Like Water for Chocolate by Common

New Music Drops: March 28, 2025

Wednesday Roundups #94: 19 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

Album Review: Can’t Lose My (Soul) by Annie & The Caldwells

The Era of Bad Bitches

New Music Drops: March 21, 2025

Album Review: Waiting On You by Jon B

Objectified Women With Stunts & Sovereigns

Wednesday Roundups #93: 9 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

Album Review: From the Private Collection of Saba and No ID by Saba & No ID

Misogyny On the Mic

Milestones: Me Against the World by 2Pac

New Music Drops: March 14, 2025

Wednesday Roundups #92: 25 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Blues Pioneers

The Mother of Hip-Hop

Our Tribute to D’Wayne Wiggins (1961-2025)

The Handguide to Albums by Related Artists (‘80s Whitney)

New Music Drops: March 7, 2025

Album Review: Ruby by JENNIE

Album Review: Mayhem by Lady Gaga

Our Tribute to Roy Ayers (1940-2025)

Wednesday Roundups #91: 19 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Don’t You Know What That Means?

1967 — Early ‘70s Female Singer-Songwriters

The Beginning of the ‘I’ Era

Our Tribute to Angie Stone (1961-2025)

February 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month

New Music Drops: February 28, 2025

The Middle Passage: Ship Ahoy

Our Tribute to Chris Jasper (1951-2025)

Wednesday Roundups #90: 20 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Al Green and Bobby Womack

Our Tribute to Roberta Flack (1937-2025)

Milestones: Funkadelic by Funkadelic

150 Best R&B Albums of the 2020s So Far

Our Tribute to Gwen McCrae (1943-2025)

Our Tribute to Jerry Butler (1939-2025)

Anniversaries: Safe + Sound by DJ Quik

New Music Drops: February 21, 2025

The African Heritage: Going to My Roots

Wednesday Roundups #89: 25 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Stevie Wonder

Album Review: Bloom by Durand Bernarr

Milestones: Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston

New Music Drops: February 14, 2025

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: From Spirituals to Secular Song

Wednesday Roundups #88: 17 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Donny Hathaway

The Message Has Arrived

Kendrick’s Personal Reckoning on The Blacker the Berry

Milestones: Supreme Clientele by Ghostface Killah

Milestones: Let’s Get Free by dead prez

The Handguide to Kendrick Lamar

Stepped Out the Swamp to the Grammy Stage

New Music Drops: February 7, 2025

Go Down, Moses: The Era of Colonialism and the African Diaspora

Wednesday Roundups #87: 21 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Sly & The Family Stone, Funkadelic, Ohio Players, and Earth, Wind & Fire

Run-D.M.C. Were No Less Rock Than Your Favorite Band

Album Review: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) by Teddy Swims

Album Review: Can’t Rush Greatness by Central Cee

January 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month

Album Review: Hurry Up Tomorrow by The Weeknd

New Music Drops: January 31, 2025

Wednesday Roundups #86: 17 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Curtis Mayfield

The Handguide to Talkbox: An Oral History of Funk In 44 Songs

Album Review: Eusexua by FKA twigs

Milestones: Voodoo by D’Angelo

The Handguide to Ohio Players

New Music Drops: January 24, 2025

Wednesday Roundups #85: 14 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

The Lineage of Prince

Hush Sound In the Big City

Milestones: The Documentary by The Game

Album Review: WHAM by Lil Baby

Milestones: Do You Want More?!!!??! by The Roots

New Music Drops: January 17, 2025

Album Review: Balloonerism by Mac Miller

Wednesday Roundups #84: 8 Albums/EPs You Should Listen to In Your Spare Time

Album Review: The Human Fear by Franz Ferdinand

The Lineage of Marvin Gaye

Our Tribute to Sam Moore (1935-2025)

Album Review: Debí Tirar Más Fotos by Bad Bunny

Anniversaries: Reality Show by Jazmine Sullivan

The Handguide to D’Angelo

New Music Drops: January 10, 2025

The Best Hip-Hop Album, Every Year Since 1980

Rappers to Watch In 2025

The Best R&B Album, Every Year Since 1957

The Femininomenon

R&B Artists to Watch In 2025