Neo-Soul has given us timeless classics, and we celebrate just a few of the artists who help put the soulful genre on the mainstream map. Soul music was never lost, but by the 1990s, some believed it ...

Born on this day in 1971 in Dallas, Texas, Erica Abi Wright, known to the universe as Erykah Badu, arrived destined to bend sound, spirit and culture to her will. When she released Baduizm in 1997, it ...

After having success as a member of the Sequence, an early female rap group, she re-emerged in the 1990s as a practitioner of sultry, laid-back R&B. By Clay Risen Angie Stone, a hip-hop pioneer in the ...

Hip-hop first emerged in the Bronx during the 1970s as a creative outlet for Black communities grappling with social and economic hardships. Born out of block parties and street corner cyphers, it ...