(RCA) The Lagos-born singer’s rocket-fuelled rise to stardom continues on a debut album peppered with swaggering bangers Temilade Openiyi’s three-year rise from Lagos buzz to international contender has been vertiginous. The vocalist/producer has already scored one Grammy, plus further Grammy and Oscar nominations for her work with Future, Beyoncé and Rihanna. After two well-received EPs, Tems’s debut album drops with 18-track swagger and a tiny handful of guests – the […]

(Stones Throw)The producer-singer duo’s sweet nostalgia-funk now has a sour vibe as Paak switches between anger and self-pity While the second outing for Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge’s two-man supergroup NxWorries recaptures the soft-edged nostalgia-funk sound of their 2016 debut Yes Lawd!, the lyrical vibe is much darker and more uncertain. It’s Paak’s first album since splitting from Jaylyn Chang, his wife of 13 years and mother of his two children, […]

Sixty years on from their first US No 1, Where Did Our Love Go, we rate the Motown group’s greatest singles – sung with and without Diana Ross The final Supremes album, Mary, Scherrie and Susaye, flopped on release and has been overlooked ever since. This is a mistake, as underlined by the impossibly euphoric, warp-speed disco of Let Yourself Go. For more of the same, check out the album’s […]

A lawsuit alleges the musician, involved with hits such as Umbrella and Single Ladies, of sexual battery and abuse by a former protege Terius Gesteelde-Diamant, the songwriter and producer better known as The-Dream, has been accused of rape by a former protege. Gesteelde-Diamant, who scored hits himself but had bigger success working with artists such as Beyoncé, Rihanna and Britney Spears, is the focus of a lawsuit filed by singer […]

Grammy-winning singer Andra Day has returned with her third album, CASSANDRA (cherith), via Warner Records.  The 16-track set includes the singles “Where Do We Go,” “Probably” and “Chasing.”  Titled after the singer’s birth name, CASSANDRA welcomes listeners into her realm as she treks through the different stages of love. Day further explains, “CASSANDRA (cherith) is a […] The post Andra Day Releases New Album ‘Cassandra (Cherith)’ appeared first on Rated R&B.