Jhené Aiko gives “Nothing Nice to Say” its first official visual, turning one of Westside Whimsy’s quietest breakup records into a study in restraint, exhaustion and knowing when to stop arguing.

Syd will bring Beard across North America on a 23-date fall tour beginning November 7 in Vancouver and closing December 16 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles.

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.