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Danish singer-songwriter Nanna.B shares 10 key records from her musical journey thus far

Swarvy and Pink Siifu: Future Classics of the Internet Era, VOL 1.

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

Twenty years since Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite

Son of Detroit:
The Oral History of J Dilla

Eddie Palmieri

Pianist Eddie Palmieri is a true Latin-music visionary

Gary Clark Jr. by Jonathan Mannion

Blues Brother: Gary Clark Jr.

D'Angelo 'Black Messiah'

D’Angelo’s Black Messiah is magical

Keyboardist Mark de Clive-Lowe keeps pushing things forward

D'Angelo 'Black Messiah'

D’Angelo has finally arrived with Black Messiah, and he’s summoned his inner Curtis Mayfield and Funkadelic for an instant classic

A look back 20 years to the debut album of Aaliyah, the R. Kelly scandal, and her Timbaland-produced follow-up that set the R&B format on fire

5 R&B records that producer/ engineer Bob Power put his stamp on

D'Angelo - Wax Poetics Issue 42

D'Angelo and the organic sweet soul of his debut, Brown Sugar, shook up modern R&B

Photo by Eric Coleman.

Madlib revived the crate-digging tradition before flipping the script and embracing live playing

ATL’s Sleepy Brown and Organized Noize created a slept-on gem

Curtis Mayfield injected his own cultural commentary into the Super Fly legacy

“They’re never gonna know that I move like hell”

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Wax Poetics Issue 50 • Prince b/w Frank Ocean

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Wax Poetics Issue 42 (D’Angelo / Barry White / Erykah Badu / Gil Scott-Heron)