It’s been a fun year in music. Genre lines have been further blurred, rappers and pop artists made house and dance albums, R&B artists delved into rap and punk music, and more. Songs took on a new ...

Sometimes the best new R&B can be hard to find, but there are plenty of great rhythm-and-blues tunes to get into if you have the time to sift through the hundreds of newly released songs every week.

Rap and R&B have always been intertwined. As both prominent Black arts, many rappers and singers from both genres were taking off and occupying the same space in the 1990s, which carried on tradition ...