Over the last several years, there's seemingly been an R&B resurgence. Based on the nominees for the 2024 Grammys, the genre is moving back toward a dominant space, as two of the most nominated ...

Ironic, then, that such a shift seems to have been ushered in by a death — not of R&B proper, mind you, but of one of its greatest modern pacesetters: The Weeknd. Since 2011, the persona inhabited by ...