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Karnee Spent Single: The Line From Detroit Quiet Storm to Alternative R&B

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Why the Paris to Philadelphia Groove Still Matters on Break It Through by The Soul Invaders

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Ocean Waves by Bonita Mae: How Neo-Soul Built a Gold Coast Late-Night Groove

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The Line From the Talk Box to AI Vocals: THE SKY FELL DOWN by GsKan

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Why Missoury and Doobieboy Spliff’s We Friends Still Matters After a One-Take Cabin Session

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Belz: How Yacht-Rock Harmonies Built the Situationship Pop of Make Up Your Mind

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Rafa de la Santa and G_Rebel Draw the Line From Santa Clara to Jazz-Tinted Hip-Hop on Tierra

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Stevie Wonder Brings Songs in the Key of Life to the Stage in Full

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Why a Pop Chorus Over a Hip-Hop Beat Still Matters on Hold Me Close Now! By Gloria May Byron

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Fill My Cup by GRECA: How Neo-Soul Built a Sanctuary for Reflection

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The Line From Marvin Gaye to Proceed 2 by Kennard

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The Line From 2000s R&B to All Night by Cat Thompson

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Why Unplugged by Paradox and Leo Low Pass Still Matters for Guitar-Led Boom Bap

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Idle Moon: How Afrobeat Built the Instrumental Grooves of Nomad

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Why Vibe Check Still Matters: djinn. and the Lo-Fi Line From Neo-Soul to Alternative R&B

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Ate by Kick 5000: How Baltimore Club Built a Faster Pocket for a Carol City Rapper

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Why Vent by Milo Kobayashi Still Matters to Self-Produced, Autotuned Boom Bap

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Aches and Echoes by Geedo: The Line From Hidden Pain to Hope

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Lucky Daye Left RCA and Made an Album About Permission

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Don’t Speak of Tomorrow Gathers Sūn Byrd’s Summer After Two Spellemann Nominations

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The Line From Losing His Dad at 13 to BIGBEARR Writing Wake Up. for His Own Kids

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Love Letters by Geedo: How Alternative R&B Built Four Songs About Love That Stays

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Why Kacey Who’s Wish Still Matters Five Years On

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The Line From The Blackbyrds to Oslo Runs Through Sūn Byrd on Changes

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Why New Tide by Gurley Still Matters to Falsetto-Led Alternative R&B

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Filip.ak SUPERSTAR Single: How Trap Built a Romanian-German Artist’s First Year

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The Line From the Minneapolis Sound to WUp2N (Whatcha Up 2 Now) by Robert Hinrichs

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Why the BlissBliss Drive Single Still Matters: A Nashville Duo Keeps the Soul in Sophisti-Pop

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Ambergrove Big Morning: How West African Rhythm Built a California Welcome to Spring

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The Line From Nigeria to Kaunas Runs Through BLACC GUY, a Trap Single by Http//:riri

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Why the Montana Single Still Matters: Ambergrove and the Folk Song That Learned From R&B

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Emmett Hughes, What Will I Do: How Reggae and Soul Built a Love Song Out of a What-If

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The Line From Erykah Badu’s Tyrone to J0VANNA’s Call Your Mama (Don’t Call Me)

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Why Risk It All Still Matters: TannyTeeY, Blastfemi and Auto-Tune R&B

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Mama Radical of Helsinki: How Sixties Soul Built Little Bit More

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Robert Glasper Opened Blue Note London With Jolene and A Love Supreme

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Anderson .Paak and Cordae Built A Good Day on Lovely Day

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263GSD JD ON DECKS: The Line From Gauteng’s Townships to a UK Booth

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Jhené Aiko Topped the Billboard 200 on 71 Million Streams

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The Line From Fort Worth Gospel to Showtyme, the SHARLOTTA Single Built on Motown and Pop

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The Line From Festival Nuevas Bandas to Todo (Irá) Bien, the Heartbreak EP by Cala Mazú

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Truth on Tap: The Line From Boom Bap to Dream Pop Runs Through IreQ Savage

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Spitfire Sparks and the Line From Kansas City to Arizona

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Dizzee Rascal Went Back to Bassline on His Ninth Album

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Volume Buck EP Traces the Line From Kingston to London

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The Line From T-Pain to Zodic, and What Fall in Luv (ReEdit) Carries

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Andrew Moore and Hooch Trace the Line From Blues to Orbit on “Spaceman”

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Kirk Franklin Doubts the Fans Who Asked for Old Kirk

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Ian Roland Plays a Twelve-String, and the Line Runs Back to Lead Belly

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Giuseppe Cucè 21 Grammi and the Line From the Gospel Hammond to Catania

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Ibibio Sound Machine Produced Chopping Mountain Themselves Again

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Blackpool Programmes Both Sides of Northern Soul’s Old Schism

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Anthony Hamilton Missed a Call From D’Angelo Two Weeks Before He Died

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Raphael Saadiq Said the Reunion Was the Last One, and It Was

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En Vogue, TLC and Salt-N-Pepa Are Playing One Set Between Them

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Beenie Man’s Producer Bought a Record by Every Guest on the Album

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P.P. Arnold Waited Sixty Years for Her First Retrospective

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Lalah Hathaway Named an Album After the Darkest Pigment Ever Made

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Sean Paul’s First Diamond Single Is One He Only Features On

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Nile Rodgers Wrote One of the Most-Sampled Records Ever Made

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Stevie Wonder Gave Away Songs He Never Recorded Himself

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The Signatures Put a Twenty-Four-Year-Old in Front of the Casino Classics

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Boyz II Men Have a Biopic, a Documentary and a Fourth Vegas Run

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They Booked Martha Reeves for a Jazz Album and She Sang It Into R&B

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Eric Benét Cast Fourteen Women and Named Himself the Co-Star

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Buju Banton Says the Word Trap Is the Wrong One for Dancehall

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Maxwell Held Back the Final Album Until He Could Sing Without Agony

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Teddy Riley Called It Sophisticated Bubblegum R&B Until Someone Renamed It

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The New Northern Soul Film Barely Talks About the Records

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Mavis Staples Is Eighty-Six and the Last Staple Singer Left

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Headie One Let Fans Watch the Sessions That Became MMM

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George Clinton Is Building a Second Mothership

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Majid Jordan Spent a Decade Getting to Two Roads

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Erykah Badu Played the Whole Album Live a Year Before Releasing It

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Vybz Kartel Put a Longtime Rival on His Nineteenth Album

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Busta Rhymes Sat on 300 J Dilla Beats for Twenty Years

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Denzel Curry Had to Argue That His 24-Minute Record Is an Album

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Ezra Collective Spotted Pa Salieu at Wembley and Wrote Him a Song

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Anderson .Paak and Cordae Put Step Brothers on Their Album Cover

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Jorja Smith Released an Album and Headlined a Festival the Same Night

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Leon Bridges Put Out Four Singles From One Album on the Same Day

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Cleo Sol Stopped Making Music for Five Years, Then Made Five Albums

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Ari Lennox’s First Album Without Dreamville Found Its Own Chart

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Thundercat Released the First Single Three Years Before the Album

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