The Brooklyn band behind Jay-Z's "Roc Boys" loop brought in the Brazilian composer MF DOOM and Ludacris sampled for strings on its first album in five years, due November 13.

Offset opened a NEED FM hotline to push "Something I Need," out September 18, while Quavo readies QRÖMELIFE and the last Migos album waits on a date.

HITS projects Westside Whimsy to debut at No. 1 on 72,000 units, with only 2,000 of them album sales. Hours later, Jhené Aiko put "Elsewhere" on sale in a limited iTunes edition.

Isaac Hayes cut four songs in 1969, Nas took six straight albums from Hit-Boy before his first Grammy, and Pharrell has now produced two complete albums in fifteen months with a third finished. The one-producer album is the oldest arrangement in this music, and it keeps collecting the trophies.

Tone Capone, who died Saturday at 59, rebuilt a Club Nouveau melody by hand for the Luniz in 1993. Jordan Peele, the NBA and a TikTok sound page show where that decision led.

A Houston vocalist with a five-octave range releases "Take Me In Your Arms" on Expansion Records, a UK independent that has spent forty years signing American soul singers the majors stopped calling.

Macklemore has been removed from eight remaining U.S. dates on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour, triggering additional withdrawals from Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham, Beoga and Finneas.

TDE's quietest classic gets its first real victory lap: a Portland-to-Perth run that lands at The Signal in Chattanooga the night before Thanksgiving.

AZ Chike's 14-track No Rest for the Wicked brings Tyler, the Creator back for two appearances and adds Pharrell Williams, Hit-Boy and Terrace Martin to the album's creative lineup.

The first Heavy Is the Crown single lands Wednesday on a Bill Withers flip. Here is what the clearance requires and why J. Cole's name keeps following this pairing.

RCA revived Jive with Britney and Usher in the press release. Seven months on, the first records carrying the name are two singles from independent Houston R&B veteran Jack Freeman, and the deal structure says a lot about what the new label is.

The album that handed Mac Miller the weakest opening week of his career is platinum now, and the edition arriving October 2 shows the players who shaped everything he made afterward were already in the room in 2016.