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The 10 Best DJ Quik-Produced Albums, Ranked
DJ Quik has never been content with just making beats. These ten albums highlight that span, each one a different argument for why his production…
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Phil
August 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month
With releases from JID to Amaarae, here are notable releases in August that stood out to us as the best albums of the month.
The 12 Best Hip-Hop Mixtape Sequels
Hip-hop built entire careers on mixtapes, and sequels are where artists test whether that spark can hold under pressure. A series title signals…
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Murffey Zavier
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R&B Songs That Aren’t Gospel But Easily Could Be
Cue any of these songs in sequence, and the distinction between sanctuary and nightclub blurs. Modulation becomes exaltation, and secular longing turns…
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R&B Albums from the ‘90s That Deserve More Appreciation (Part One)
We are shining a light on R&B’s underappreciated albums of the 1990s. Currently, here is part one from the series, featuring ten LPs that are often…
The 25 Best Live R&B and Soul Albums (with EPs)
Whether stripped to acoustic bones or expanded with DJ scratches, each set reinvents its own rules. This unranked list celebrates artists brave enough…
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Brandon O'Sullivan
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Phil
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July 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month
With releases from Clipse to Raekwon, here are notable releases in July that stood out to us as the best albums of the month.
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The True R&B Songs of the Summer in 2025
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know. We don’t have a definitive “song of the summer” that we can collectively agree on, but for all “R&B is Dead” complainers, the…
The Ten Songs That Joe Thomas Wrote for Other Artists
Joe Thomas’ résumé behind the microphone is well-known, yet his pen is just as formidable. A close read to show what makes his writing persuasive, and…
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Imani Raven
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June 2025 Roundups: The Best Albums of the Month
With releases from Little Simz to McKinley Dixon, here are notable releases in June that stood out to us as the best albums of the month.
The Best R&B Mixtapes You Might’ve Missed In the 2010s
The 2010s produced a quiet flood of R&B tapes that redirected the genre through bedrooms, label boardrooms, and avant-garde club basements. Let’s see if…
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Jill Wannasa
R&B Groups That Never Came to Fruition
The list outlined an alternative timeline of R&B, one where everything remained central even as the business world around them kept changing the rules.
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Jill Wannasa
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