R&B

2019 release. The first album by Fingertone (Philip Alexandrov) and Malik (Michael Fleming AKA Lexus) comes with a contemplative music that predisposes seeing and opening up to cosmic harmony. Their meeting, five years ago, turns out to be a fateful...

2019 release. Singer, songwriter and actor Rahsaan Patterson's career started at the age of 10 in the role of "the Kid" on the long-running TV show Kids Incorporated, along with other future stars Fergie, Martika, and Shanice. His critically acclaimed...

2019 release. Romanticism is back and headed in a new direction with Loren Oden's debut album, My Heart, My Love. This album the listener to experience a uniquely curated sound: a sound with lyrical transparency and vulnerability, reminiscent of classic...

2019 release. R&B icon Angie Stone comes full circle with her strongest album of original material to date. Includes the blockbuster single "Dinosaur" that has been lighting up the air waves all over the US, cracking into the Top 30 of the Urban AC...

2019 release. Over the past twenty years, when musicians and producers in Southern California have needed fresh R&B, funk, or hip hop beats, they've called on drummer Jake Najor. A former bandmember of Breakestra, Incredible Moses Leroy, and The...

2019 release. Not only did Varner enlist melodic poet Wale for the mixtape, she recruited emcee Rapsody. "One of the songs I'm most excited about sounds like it literally came out of the 1980s," she revealed exclusively to Rated R&B. "Some people call it...

2019 release. Mavis Staples returns with a studio album produced and written by Ben Harper. Backed by Mavis' critically acclaimed live band, We Get By features 10 songs of longing, strength, and spirituality, presented with simplicity, grit and sublime...

2019 release. Karate Boogaloo bring you KB's Mixtape No. 2 reminding us of the beauty of coloring outside the lines; their unconventional, wonky soul guided by a steadfast commitment to bending the rules. 2018's KB's Mixtape No. 1, a self-produced and...

2019 release. Jack Waterson is the acid that Adrian Younge never took as a kid. The result, as you'd expect, is both colorful and dark; full of sonic and musical surprises. The creative relationship they have questions the social order of the United...

2019 release. Intuition: Songs From The Minds Of Women is a collection of definitive songs written by some of the greatest female songwriters. Produced by Kamau Kenyatta. Co-produced by Ulysses Owens Jr. And Alicia Olatuja. The album features the vocals...

2019 release. In the late '60s, jazz was at a turning point. Soul music had taken much of it's black audience and rock's intellectualization was eating up it's support amongst college students. The usual story told is that jazz split between those who...

2019 release. Hurts 2B Human is the eighth studio album from pop superstar Pink. The first single from the album, "Walk Me Home", was called a "foot-stomping anthem" as well as an "optimistic departure" from the content of her previous album, Beautiful...