Sexyy Red

This week's best new hip-hop and R&B releases include 6LACK's soul-baring album Love Is the New Gangsta, JPEGMAFIA's 25-track EXPERIMENTAL RAP, the Lizzo and Sexyy Red collab "HOES," and the long-awaited French Montana and Max B reunion project. Here is everything worth streaming this New Music Friday.

Drake drops three albums at once, Givēon expands Beloved with Act II, Chris Brown and Usher announce their massive R&B stadium tour, Mariah the Scientist stays hot, and veteran soul stars remind everyone why the classics still win. Here is everything that happened in hip-hop and R&B this week.

Sexyy Red is back, and she is not playing with this one. Her latest single, "Hoochie Coochie," is setting the streets on fire, quickly rising as an early contender for the summer's hottest anthem.

The music world got a whole lot spicier this week when smooth operator Bruno Mars linked with hip-hop's newest queen Sexyy Red for their boundary-pushing new single, "Fat, Juicy, and Wet." The track, which dropped yesterday, is already setting social media on

Rapper Sexyy Red has issued an public apology to Bernice King, daughter of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., following controversy over an AI-generated image featuring the rapper alongside the late civil rights icon.