Below is a hand‑picked R&B syllabus for the soul—thirty albums that feel less like casual listening and more like a guided therapy session.

His rise from Baton Rouge classrooms to headlines carried a mix of clarity, confrontation, and consequence. That same force followed him into his years of exile, imprisonment, faith, and decline. More: https://t.co/FV3uPntlvA

November's best music from @andwearests, bigging up #ALongShortStory by @johnnyburgosnyc @LRK_Records #RapAndSoulPromo https://t.co/PgtGdZ0teF

.@PinkSiifu enters this project carrying the weight of every shape-shift he’s made up until the sprawling world-building of BLACK'!ANTIQUE. ONYX’! arrives as the splintered afterimage of that last record.

The beloved lead singer of Tavares has died peacefully at home, leaving behind decades of soul and joy. His family remembers his positive spirit and thanks fans for their prayers.

A multigenerational conversation in sound. You’ll hear legends and newcomers weaving fresh narratives; jazz in 2025 will not be pinned down. Expect anything but the expected.

People who suddenly show up white, AI slop, and creepy crawlies on faces: once again this year, rap music distinguished itself with bizarre cover designs.

They aren’t wrong

‘Rosemary’s Baby’ one of the best albums this month. @AndWeAreSTS said it first I’m just repeating it. 🫶🏼🥀

While the charts chased EDM, these five albums doubled down on grown‑folks storytelling. They’re the kind of records that reward late‑night listening and make you Google who produced track seven.

Jazmine Sullivan channels the spirits of her musical foremothers while forging her own identity. Love Me Back gives so much love that it compels you to love it back in return.

Erykah Badu is still on the line, still experimenting with that perfect frequency. In a world more digitally tangled than ever, sometimes the soul connection is just a hello away.

A decade after her first break, @JessieJ isn’t chasing the charts. The singer who once rode the line between pop hits and stage‑school bravado is balancing motherhood, illness, loss, and independence.

Here’s your upcoming rundown of albums/singles releasing on November 28th, featuring Jessie J, Pink Siifu, Stove God Cooks, Sweet Love, and many others.

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Follow Tamar, Ol’ Skool, Elisha La’Verne, Gerald Levert, and Fishbone, and you get a different map of the year 2000. Follow the producers’ names in the credits, and it sharpens even more.

With @Elujay, #MylesLloyd, @SaveBenReilly, @Awich098, #SABRI, @iAmLyric, @AndreDMego, @Tawobi, @yeahitsola, @inf_mobb_flee/#JansportJ, #RemeyWilliams, @HusKingpin, and others, hit play on these projects released last week.

Each of these records was asked to do too much: fix a label, restart a career, honor the dead, prove a crew was still worth betting on. But you can also hear people refusing to back off.

SALT is in great company! Big thanks to @AndWeAreSTS https://t.co/L8741NbkTH

.@mavi4mayor works out from the chaos of his last record with a sober eye and a heavy heart. This mixtape traces how he confronts the cost of success and the scars he has been carrying.

With releases from ROSALÍA to Armand Hammer, here are notable releases in November that stood out to us as the best albums of the month.