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.

As the ’80s dawned ... not just in the R&B world but also among the pop titans. “Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run),” a song that Ocean recorded a few times, changing the title ...

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 ...