a subgenre that continued to make waves into the '90s era. From Michael Jackson to The Gap Band, here's a list of some of the hottest R&B songs of the '80s.

They may have hit the Billboard Hot 100 again during their careers, but their legacies are primarily tethered to one major ...

When the mainstream popularity of rap music elevated in the late 1980s, it often did so with the help of inventive sampling. While many samples came from the R&B funk world, clever hip-hop artists and ...

He became one of the most successful soul/R&B artists of the 1980s. Very few people even realized Billy Ocean had been recording for nearly a decade before massive crossover smashes like "Suddenly" ...

This new pack, 80s Mixtape Side B, is the follow-up to this pack, featuring its own impressive roster of tunes. For this bigger, beefier set of songs, you can look forward to: ...