Cheryl "Salt" James releases her debut solo album on September 25 through a label she owns outright. The tracklist, the title, and the four albums she still cannot stream explain what a debut means forty years in.

JoJo is taking The High Road back to the stage for seven intimate North American shows celebrating the album’s 20th anniversary, with an artist presale beginning September 15.

Clipse, Quavo, John Legend and Pusha T all recorded in the same Paris office, and one man produced every note. HitsCulture on how a fashion job became the most productive stretch of Pharrell Williams's career.

Six new albums landed on September 11 carrying 114 tracks between them, on the same grid as a 25-year-old record with thirteen. The gap is not taste. It is a chart formula that pays for length and has paid more since January.

Snoop Dogg will host and executive produce the 2026 MTV VMAs on Sept. 27, and three weeks later T-Pain headlines an all-ages Golden Gate Park bill with Ari Lennox. What is confirmed, and when the tickets move.

Quavo’s next solo chapter runs through Pharrell Williams. QRÖMELIFE arrives October 2, following a campaign that has moved from Louis Vuitton’s Paris runway to an Atlanta reunion with T.I.

Jhené Aiko’s Westside Whimsy is warm, vulnerable, sensual and remarkably easy to settle into. On first listen, songs like “He Belongs,” “Don’t Be That Guy,” “Lullaby” and the Kendrick Lamar-assisted “So Good” make a convincing case that this could be her most complete project yet.

Drake has finally revealed what Fear of Missing Out is: a film premiering September 15 on YouTube. The bigger clue may be his description of FOMO as a project that was also scored by his inner circle.

Hours after a virtual divorce hearing ended without resolution, Papoose released the “Jezebel” video. Remy Ma has her own record queued for September 25, and the ledger between them is now public property.

A viral podcast clip put a nine-figure number on Jill Scott's exit from Hidden Beach. The actual 2010 complaint, and the settlement that followed, tell a stranger story about what leaving a label really costs.

Durk Banks was found not guilty on all five counts Friday, while two co-defendants were convicted of stalking. The split verdict shows exactly where the government's case broke.

Jay-Z's best album landed in stores the morning the towers fell, sold 427,000 copies anyway, and became the record a wounded city adopted without ever mentioning the date. On its 25th anniversary, the story of how that happened.