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Good music can time travel. Aaliyah Dana Haughton was fifteen years old in 1994, when she released her cover of the Isley Brothers “(At Your Best) You Are Love.”The song debuted in 1976, almost three years before Aaliyah was born. In young adulthood, she’d take what was then a modest …

Good — or at least entertaining — R&B often succeeds on how well it embraces the highest of stakes. When it comes to the expansive inner worlds of rhythm and blues, the flirting is Machiavellian, everyone spits game like the Bard, and the subsequent sex is never just sex; it’s …

Spotify’s most popular R&B playlist includes 40 songs, and almost every one contains drums. But you won’t find any percussion in Pink Sweat$’ “Honesty” — little more than a tranquil line on guitar and a series of harmonies, the track is like a demo that never got beefed up but …

The singer Lucky Daye makes music full of live funk, strings and brass — it’s more William DeVaughn than the Weeknd, and as a result, it’s not the type of R&B you usually find on mainstream radios or massive playlists like Today’s Top Hits. But the fact that Daye’s music …