Moneybagg Yo is back with "I See Why," and the real headline is his body. Inside the single, the video, and the twin transformation reshaping his music and his physique.

Tyla goes full pop scale, Rico Nasty comes home to Kenny Beats, and Kenyon Dixon turns self-sabotage into a concept album. Here is everything worth hearing from today's hip hop, R&B, and soul releases.

Anthony Hamilton's new Southern soul record with hometown artist 704 lands months after he honored his late mentor D'Angelo at the 2026 Grammys, and it says more about his career than any solo album could.

Future's The Real Me just gave him his 12th No. 1 album, passing Eminem for all-time chart history, even as critics split down the middle on the record itself.

AZ became a founding partner in an AI royalty platform that pays creators when their expertise trains machine learning systems, and hip-hop's most underrated lyricist is betting his legacy that it actually works.

Victoria Monét announces Frequency of Love and releases 'Reach Out,' a Kaytranada and D'Mile produced turn toward the dance floor that trades her classic soul sound for something bolder.

Lupe Fiasco, Gym Class Heroes, and B.o.B are taking the blog era on tour, and the numbers say millennial nostalgia has become a real live-music business.

A federal judge severed two new racketeering allegations from Lil Durk's August murder-for-hire trial. Here is what actually changed, and what didn't.

Mya's retro Give It to You video looks like a nostalgia trip. It is actually the clearest argument yet for why her independent, ownership-first approach has kept her working for three decades.

Twenty-five years after "Uh Huh," B2K's comeback single "Mileage" proves the reunion is built to last, and Omarion's parallel solo run backs up the argument.

Tinashe's new album Popstar looks like a major label comeback. It is actually the closing argument in a twelve year negotiation she started the day RCA let her go.

Rick Ross, Steve Lacy, Syd, Ambre, Larry June, Masego, Nao Yoshioka, Lil Baby and Pharrell Williams, MudBaby Ru, and Real Boston Richey headline the busiest New Music Friday of the summer, and the slate splits clean down the middle.