Maybe it’s that it’s the first week of November and a Christmas song has dropped, but these songs seem to revolve around a common theme. Bad choices in former or almost lovers. One singer is blowing ...

October is when the best of the fall has to prove itself before the onslaught of holiday sets. Highlights this month: John Legend enlists Pharrell to produce an entire set; Fontaines D.C. returns ...

At the beginning of 2004, a few weeks after the release of the movie You Got Served—where they’re not only in but also are the ones carrying the movie (how’s that for pressure?)—B2K split up. That was ...

The difference, perhaps, is that when Combs turned to R&B at the turn of the century, the template for his ballads was usually built on familiar loops, lifted from a ‘70s soul classic or an old rap ...

Offset answers gunfire, angry girlfriends, and loyal friends with diamonds on a long, hard trap album, and in a handful of ...

The Adamsville rapper brags like a salesman, keeps getting interrupted by his own family, mourning a friend and worrying over his father in the same hustler’s cadence.

On her fourth album, Snoh Aalegra sings the rise and fallout of a whirlwind romance over synthesizers and live bass, pairing devotional funk with ballads about what the affair might have become.

Wonky Logic recorded Mek Do & Mend in one day with players out of his own life, then let his mother, his relatives and his ...

Christian Kuria prices every heartbreak on EAST before it happens and pays it anyway, and that turns the hurt party in his ...