Lalah Hathaway's ninth album is here, nine songs co-produced with Phil Beaudreau and released on the day her father would have turned 81. Here's what's on it and where she's taking it.

Lil Nas X is back with "World's Greatest!", a self-written single and Phillip Youmans-directed video introduced by a voicemail from his late mother.

Rapsody plays four unplugged shows in October, opening in Crown Heights and closing at Blue Note Los Angeles, the Sunset jazz club she already headlined in February.

Boosie Badazz and Webbie have set Back At It for Oct 24, the first project billed to the two of them alone since Gangsta Musik. Here is the Trill history behind it and the Baton Rouge it returns to.

Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" re-entered the Hot 100 at No. 45, its first chart week since 1979. The calendar, the tracking week and a rewritten Billboard rule all lined up behind it.

Yung Miami named her solo debut Watch Dis with no date and no label attached. "Spend Dat" gave her a No. 17 hit and 83.8 million streams, and her last album opened at No. 117.

Zohran Mamdani sat with Nas near Queensbridge and promised artists could afford to live where they create. The rent freeze starts Thursday, the Bronx School of Hip-Hop is open, and the city's major celebrations of its own rap history are booked somewhere else.

Meek Mill says the 1,500-streams-per-sale rule set artists back a decade. We ran his own numbers through the chart math, the DSP payout pool and the label split to find where the money actually goes.

Kimaya Diggs is the lead producer on her third album, Green, out Oct 2, and takes it on the road with release shows Oct 10, Oct 17 and Oct 30.

Meshell Ndegeocello's Blue Note duets album Synonym arrives Oct 2, recasting songs by Aretha and George Michael, Flack and Hathaway and Temple of the Dog with same-gender pairings.

A judge cut Chris Brown's dog-attack verdict to $9.5 million, Jay-Z's accuser swore she never met him, and Finesse2Tymes put a price on leaving Mob Ties. Here is what each case means next.

Fantasia and Anthony Hamilton's third run together hits 24 arenas in 2027, from Washington to Newark, with Death Row's October London as special guest. Here's every date and how to get presale tickets.