The Season 12 premiere of "American Idol" is just days away, so you know what that means ... time for Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj to hash out that three month-old feud! "It felt like ...

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New Edition has quite a legacy. The six-man R&B group has amassed a serious discography of hits. From their early days as an 80s bubblegum teen act through their evolution into polished 90s R&B ...

The past year has been an incredible 12 months for hip-hop. The entire year has been bursting with quality tracks, mixtapes and albums. It seems almost all of the big names dropped at least something, ...

Kanye West is notable for many reasons. When it comes to his rapping, though, he wasn't always the celebrated figure he is today. He had some fantastic moments in the early years of his career, many ...

The Afro has always been more than just a hairstyle. It's a statement, and in many ways, a symbol of resistance. We're looking at some of the greatest Afros in hip-hop and R&B history in the gallery ...

In recent years, Chris Brown and Rihanna's publicly troubled relationship created shocking headlines that repeatedly threatened to overload the Internet. But nothing they did was ever as literally ...

Although we could always appreciate the strength of R&B's female voices like Whitney Houston, Deborah Cox and, more recently, Beyoncé, there's just something moving about hearing the harmonies from ...

Rihanna (born Robyn Rihanna Fenty) has been hella busy taking the beauty and fashion industries by storm with the launches of Fenty Beauty and Savage x Fenty, leaving her navy of fans to wonder if she ...

Remember about 14 years ago when Making The Band was a thing for pretty much every network attempting to draw in viewership? Well, one of those shows, BET's Blowin' Up Fatty Koo recently resurfaced ...

Back in the day, long before Instagram helped turned models into stars, there were rap videos. Arguably, one of the most popular models of that era is Gloria Velez, a New York born, Florida raised ...