R&B songs make me want to immediately have sex; they also make me forget that some sex is not perpetrated by oiled-up R&B singers who can effortlessly lift up my weighty body and pleasurably tie it in a bow. Some sex bad. Nikki Glaser knows this.
Natalie Cole, the singer whose career spanned four decades and who was the daughter of Nat King Cole, died Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital from congestive heart failure, TMZ reports. She was 65.
In August 2013, in the middle of a small forest, the R&B trio known as TGT (Tyrese, Ginuwine, Tank) dropped their debut album, Three Kings. Promotion for said album included such memorable moments as Ginuwine drunkenly singing on stage. The group is now sadly no longer, and two initials in that acronym have resorted…
It’s been too long since Kelela’s Cut 4 Me redirected airy soul vocals towards underground dance music’s most experimental edge—two years, in fact, and longer since she and producer Kingdom dropped its first game-changing single “Bank Head,” which processed Rhythm & Quad through an anti-gravity chamber.
Timbaland recently posted a photo of Aaliyah on his Instagram, saying that he is often asked if he has any never-before-heard music from the cherished late singer. In the caption, he confirmed that he does have unreleased tracks from Baby Girl and promises a sneak peek is on its way.
Trey Songz is sorta back with lines from Carly Simon? Sure, why not.
This past Saturday, Miguel Jontel Pimentel—musician, sex god, king—posted an invitation to something called the #WILDHEARTEXPERIENCE, providing a link to RSVP. On Sunday, he dropped a few more crumbs, telling his followers to congregate at MELROSE AND FAIRFAX at 7 pm, and to wear white.
R&B singer Cheryl Lynn, who’s best known for her hit “Got To Be Real,” did not get the memo to never tweet. Late last night, Lynn engaged in a one-sided argument with legend Anita Baker on Twitter.
Near 20 years after Lauryn Hill dropped “Doo Wop,” her first single, it’s still got the capacity to induce chills—her syntactical skill on the raps, but most especially the tremor in her vibrato, which contains all the knowing pain it ever did, even with a smile on her face, even after all this time.
Ciara’s dropping Jackie next week and, to my mind, it’s gotta be a home run. 2013’s Ciara was moderately flush with cuts, but it didn’t seem to go anywhere, whether chartwise or culturally. She’s had a tumultuous year—had her first child with rapper Future, a potential dream team that seemed to go south with the…
Usually when a woman in the general R&B oeuvre sings a line like, “All I do is stay up all night losin’ sleep over you,” she is lamenting her partner’s dirty deeds, or predicating a break-up. (Oh, the early Keyshianess of it all!) With “The Way,” though, Kehlani is neither of those things: she’s sleepless with lust,…
"2Shy" is the fourth single from Shura, a London trio fronted by singer-songwriter/producer Alexandra Denton, and it's their best—although it's seated firmly in the nostalgia zone of r&b synth-pop that's dominated the blogs, if not the charts, for years, "2Shy" works within the genre to generate something pristine and…
Twenty-two is a really important age for a woman: far enough off from teenhood that it feels grown, new enough to adulthood that self-actualization is a prospect of excitement and fear, like when your stomach starts to drop in airplane turbulence. Some emotions are new; even newer is how confidence cements them there.…
For a few years, Dawn Richard has been independently releasing some of the best, deepest, and most experimental R&B out, and in the States it's been comparatively under-noticed—even as her former crew Danity Kane reunited and broke up again to a slew of tabloidy headlines. What gives! Regardless, in January, she…
Nerve has noticed a troubling trend in pop music: Dudes are aren't falling to their knees and begging us to come back to them anymore. Before watching their montage of the finest climactic moments from classic R&B videos, you might want to lay down on some silky sheets and light a few candles — or if you're a dude,…
It's happening over at Spin, starting with the question of whether rap has become less misogynistic and R&B more so. May we suggest giving the Willis Test a shot in this one?
Raheem DeVaughn has been burning up the Internet with a fairly explicit music video for "She's Single." Maybe it's because it's graphic — or maybe it's just that he's all about going down on girls. Also: Safe sex!
