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R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Amindi, tobi lou, Frsh Waters & More
The Sunday of summer is right around the corner and as the season begins to wind down, we’ve got a mellow roundup of Fresh Picks this week to help usher you into August. There’s an even mix of rap and...
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How Sexyy Red Is Rewriting Rap’s Playbook: ‘People Think I’m Crazy But I’m...
Sexyy Red isn’t concerned with chasing hits. “I’m not even trying,” she tells Billboard over Zoom. “You just gotta be yourself and then they gonna f–k with you.” Related It’s the Summer of Sexyy Red...
View ArticleR&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Alina Baraz, Rob49, midwxst & More
Happy August! The Sunday of summer months is here, but the heat persists. This week, we have an array of sounds from soothing R&B songs by Alina Baraz, LOONY and No Guidnce to genre-fusing tracks...
View ArticleHow Did Travis Scott’s ‘Utopia’ Nearly Match His ‘Astroworld’ First-Week...
It’s been a slow year for rap albums at the top of the Billboard 200 — Lil Uzi Vert’s Pink Tape had been the only 2023 hip-hop set to top the chart — but this week, here comes Travis Scott‘s Utopia to...
View ArticleR&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: UMI, Headie One, frex & More
Hip-hop officially turned 50 years old late last week, but it’s never too late to celebrate the genre that has soundtracked Black life in America over the past five decades. With Fresh Picks, we...
View ArticleR&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Jessie Reyez & Miguel, Larry June, Dylan...
Happy Monday! As we inch towards the end of summer, you can count on this week’s Fresh Picks to keep things hot. From the R&B sounds of Jessie Reyez (with Miguel), Samaria, Dylan Sinclair and Lyfe...
View ArticleR&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: Omar Apollo, Tai Verdes, Luh Tyler & More
Temperatures are dropping but the R&B/hip-hop heat still persists. This week we’ve got a collection of songs by genre-benders (Omar Apollo and Tai Verdes), emerging rap stars (Luh Tyler, Audrey...
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24 Hours at Harvard, Attending IDK’s No Label Academy
It’s early afternoon on Friday (August 25), the last day of class for students at this year’s No Label Academy (NLA) music business program. IDK, his team and I are driving to Harvard Medical School...
View ArticleR&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: JID & Lil Yachty, Jorja Smith,...
New month, new week, new Fresh Picks. We’re starting September off with a range of sounds by vets like JID, Lil Yachty, Jorja Smith and Baby Tate as well as newcomers Chase Shakur, Ama Lou, Tisakorean...
View ArticleWhy Baritone R&B Singer Fridayy Is One Of a Kind
Philly newcomer Fridayy has already accomplished what most new R&B/hip-hop artists dream of — times four: he’s on a song alongside Rick Ross, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and John Legend. Last year, DJ...
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