Actor Kendrick Sampson is celebrating his birthday with the annual Who All Gon’ Be There (WAGBT) x The Session R&B Jam in Houston.

When the term super producer is mentioned, only a handful of names truly fit the title—RZA, Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, The Neptunes, Jermaine Dupri, and Kanye West, to name a few. Among them is a ...

From rebellious beginnings to genre-bending artistry, Tyler, the Creator has shaped modern hip-hop with fearless creativity.

A Biography of Al Green by Jimmy McDonough, and the popularity of Green’s recordings on reissue CD’s and streaming outlets, it’s appropriate to display a 2004 interview I initially conduced for HITS ...

While waiting for Ray J to hit the stage in Phoenix on Jan. 16, one question plagued my mind: Why was Ray J celebrating his birthday in Phoenix? Just a week prior, while in Las Vegas, the singer was ...

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit country songs. Her name was Esther Phillips, and she was best known for ...

Young, hot stars like Leon Thomas, Givēon, and Coco Jones put a distinctly old-school touch on their music and were rewarded with nominations in the general Best R&B Album category. It makes the race ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardi B quickly shut down rumors that Offset attempted to pull up to the birthday party she had for Stefon Diggs at Booby Trap in ...

D’Angelo, the legendary R&B singer who helped pioneer the genre of music known as “neo-soul” and is known for such hits as “Lady,” “Brown Sugar” and “Untitled (How Does It Feel?),” died Tuesday of ...

B.B. King, legendary "King of the Blues" who died in at the age of 89 in 2015, would have turned 100 on Sept. 16, 2025. In 1925, Riley B. King was born in Berclair, Mississippi, a small, ...

Sept. 16, 2025, will be a milestone in the history of Memphis and American music, as it marks what would have been B.B. King’s 100th birthday. To all who ever heard him play, King was the one true ...