As Sudanese-American rapper Bas was prepping the release of Melanchronica, his somber joint album with London duo the Hics, one major hiccup stood in the way. The sample on “Four Walls,” a break-up ...

For more than two decades, the neo-soul sound has produced some of the most prolific artists of generations including Maxwell, Floetry, Frank Ocean, Anderson .Paak, and Thundercat. We are now in 2020 ...

Until 2015, though, it appeared that soul as a mainstream genre was, for the most part, dying out. The few times that I remember hearing such '70s- and '80s-tugging melodies blaring at a public venue ...

In the latest installment of our Retro Neo series, R&B singer Q describes how neo-soul is the identity of the Black community. From Clayton Bigsby to Charlie Murphy's Hollywood stories about Prince ...