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Milestones: blackSUMMERS’night by Maxwell
Seven years of quiet produced the most honest R&B album of 2016’s stacked summer, and the most ignored.
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Milestones: Songs In A Minor by Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys left Columbia at sixteen and bet her career on a piano. Nothing else in 2001 R&B sounded like it.
Jun 26
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Milestones: Peace Beyond Passion by Meshell Ndegeocello
The album that named homophobia with a slur and Christianity with a question mark was too honest for a music industry that preferred its Black women…
Jun 25
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Darryl Keyes
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Milestones: Keith Sweat by Keith Sweat
Four million copies of unchanged Keith Sweat, arriving when everyone counted him out. The begging worked better than the reinvention.
Jun 25
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Jamila W.
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Milestones: Call Me If You Get Lost by Tyler, The Creator
Tyler asked the Grammys why he couldn’t be in pop, then made a Gangsta Grillz album. It won Best Rap Album anyway.
Jun 25
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Milestones: Reasonable Doubt by JAŸ-Z
The drug dealer’s debut built a billion-dollar empire. Thirty years later, nothing else in his catalog sounds this hungry or this scared.
Jun 25
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L. Ari James
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Milestones: 4 by Beyoncé
The most important Beyoncé album is the one nobody was ready for. She made a whole record about loving one man, and it rewired everything that came…
Jun 24
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Tai Lawson
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Milestones: Secrets by Toni Braxton
Secrets is a grown woman’s album in a year when R&B was getting younger. Braxton went to Babyface and Diane Warren, and the music has outlasted…
Jun 19
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Cierra Marcel
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Milestones: Sparkle by Aretha Franklin
A man wrote every word and a woman made all of it hers. The best Aretha Franklin album in years almost didn’t survive the sessions.
Jun 1
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Milestones: Harvest for the World by The Isley Brothers
The group’s fourteenth album asks who loves you better and whether it even matters when the world won't feed its own.
May 29
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Milestones: Forever My Lady by Jodeci
Four teenagers from North Carolina gospel families carried twenty-nine demos to New York, and in one afternoon rewrote the terms of what masculine R&B…
May 28
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Mina Abdel
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Milestones: Efil4zaggin by N.W.A.
The first gangsta rap LP to hit number one on the Billboard 200 was made by a four-man crew. Dre quietly built the engine of West Coast rap’s next…
May 28
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Phil
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