R&B
Sports
Steve Stoute’s BASE:LINE is the NBA’s new soundtrack
The weekly Apple Music playlist will grant exposure to emerging and independent artists
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has a woman and LL Cool J problem
From its lack of female artists and snub of the pioneering MC, the music institution has some explaining to do
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Earth, Wind & Fire brought the funk to the Kennedy Center Honors
The first African American band to receive the prestigious honor turned the high-powered audience into fans at a dance party
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Ari Lennox is no joke
The R&B singer is joining Lizzo’s Cuz I Love You Too Tour
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Will Smith, a pioneering black nerd, helped raise and change rap music
Smith’s music career reveals an artist who believed in an Afrocentric American dream based on ambition, hustle and black pride
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A painful listen to Marvin Gaye’s newly released posthumous album
1972’s ‘You’re the Man‘ project is a reminder of post-civil rights America — and Tupac
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R. Kelly is canceled: Long live James Ingram and the R&B love ballad
Quiet storm and slow-moving songs about the urgency of love are fading from view, but they’re not gone yet
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Charlotte native Anthony Hamilton to sing national anthem at NBA All-Star Game
‘I’m singing for my whole community and the people who loved me for so long’
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Grammys: From Cardi B to Drake, a night of come-ups, curves and side-eyes
What’s next? That’s the real question