"Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" Mary J. Blige led the rankings with her hit song “ Be Without You.” Part of the award-winning ...

Twenty years after it was first released, Sean Paul and Keyshia Cole’s #3 Billboard Hot 100 hit When You Gonna (Give it Up to ...

Only You, a song from American rap superstar J. Cole's new album The Fall Off, is built around the classic Drop Leaf riddim, ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Before Billboard charts, before ...

J. Cole addressed the Kendrick-Drake feud, and Bruce Springsteen whipped up an instant response to the chaos in Minneapolis. By Jon Pareles When federal agents killed anti-ICE protesters in ...

Bruce Springsteen touched down in Minnesota on Friday and performed his protest song “Streets of Minneapolis,” a response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, hours after ...

In case you missed it, in a previous article, we covered a handful of J. Cole songs to get listeners ready for his upcoming (and final?) album, The Fall-Off, releasing February 6, 2026. Read that, ...

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A new Chicago festival celebrating early 2000s R&B and house music will be held at Union Park on Memorial Day weekend. The Forever Mine Music Festival will be held May 23-24. The festival will be ...

Hit-Boy. Has there ever been a name more fitting for an artist? Since the late 2000s, the producer has been behind some of the most recognizable hits in rap music. Hailing from Southern California, he ...

J. Cole dropped a surprise package of four freestyles in the aptly named project, Birthday Blizzard ’26, which arrived hours before the rapper turned 41. The mixtape is available on Cole’s website for ...