Janelle Monae

It appears that a slip-up on Target's website has led to the leak of the artwork and track listing for Janelle Monae's highly anticipated new album, 'The Electric Lady.'

If you look at the present landscape of R&B, it seems like it's upside down. Justin Timberlake, Robin Thicke and Miguel are all the biggest draws in the genre currently followed closely by Frank Ocean. Meanwhile, usual R&B stars like Usher, Ne-Yo and Chris Brown have embraced David Guetta & Taio Cruz inspired Euro Techno & club music in order to move units rather than stick with th

President Obama has been re-elected for a second term in office and tons of artists responded to the news, expressing their gratitude and happiness with the decision. Here's a roundup of tweets: Rihanna: Put one in da air for the Prez...

Erykah Badu voiced her bold opinion recently about The Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne, blasting him for his "self-serving" ways by releasing unapproved visuals for their collaboration video "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Now she's giving some insight -- with less bite -- on two other avant-garde entertainers...

AP NEW YORK (AP) - Pearl Jam, Skrillex and D'Angelo are among the performers scheduled to take the stage at the music festival Jay-Z is curating in Philadelphia in September. Jay-Z will also perform, as will Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Santigold, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Rick Ross and his Maybach Music group...

At the Met Ball, you come hard, or you don't come at all. Held each year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the event is known as the "Oscars of the East Coast," and Monday night (May 7), the hip-hop and R&B communities came with requisite fierceness. T...

Many in the hip-hop and R&B community are up in arms about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old boy who was shot and killed in his father's gated community in Florida on Feb. 26. Martin was gunned down by an unregistered neighborhood watch member named George Zimmerman, who has yet to be charged. O...

NEW YORK (AP) - A chance to kiss the buff, shirtless Richard Gere of the early '80s? Sold, for $20,000! It wasn't exactly a time machine that was auctioned off at the annual amfAR AIDS charity gala kicking off New York Fashion Week on Wednesday evening...

President Obama showed off his vocal prowess Thursday night (Jan. 19) at a fundraising event held at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, N.Y., surprising those in attendance who weren't aware the Commander in Chief could carry a tune. As he stood at a podium in front of an American flag, Obama shared his enthusiasm over watching soul crooner Rev...

Janelle Monae traveled to Chicago last week (Jan. 11) and met with President Obama during a concert and rally at the University of Illinois, which was organized as part of a campaign fundraising exhibition in Chicago. President Obama praised Monae for her vocal abilities, which he had previously witnessed in October 2011, at a state dinner alongside Korean President Lee Myung-bak...