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The 2020 Playa Please Awards: The Worst Celebrity News of the Worst Year

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What Happened to R&B? 4 Reasons It Failed and How We Can Revive It

• October 16, 2020

Here at Soul In Stereo, y’all know I’ve spent more ...

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The Grammys Swap ‘Urban Contemporary’ for ‘Progressive R&B’ – But Is This A Good Thing?

• June 10, 2020

If there's been one consistent theme in 2020, it's been ...

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How Otis Redding put Macon, Ga., on America’s musical map

• February 13, 2020

If Otis Redding is one of the architects of soul, ...

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The 2019 Playa Please Awards: The Worst Celebrity News of the Year

• December 23, 2019

2019, you were a special kind of trash. Every year, ...

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20 Questions: 2019 BET Awards Recap

• June 24, 2019

What if they threw an awards show and no one ...

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Drake’s So Far Gone: A 10-Year Retrospective

• February 13, 2019

Words by Alex Goodwin Ten years ago on this date, ...

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20 Questions: 2019 Grammys Review

• February 11, 2019

Anyone excited for this year's Grammys? This year promised at ...

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The Playa Please Awards: The Worst Moments of 2018

• December 24, 2018

2018 was some piece of work, huh? But before you ...

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How Could You Be So Heartless? How Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak Wrecked R&B/Soul

• November 26, 2018

Last weekend, Twitter celebrated the 10-year anniversary of Kanye West's ...

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