Guardian Music — (MSM Music)Winners of the outstanding contribution to music award at the Mobos last week, Boyz II Men are well primed for their comeback. But despite sampling Beyoncé's latest single, what is most striking about their first new material in a decade ... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Let’s pretend that Cee-Lo Green and the poor lady on the receiving end of the more profane version of “… You” decided to patch things up and go back to bed. What record do they put on? Mayer Hawthorne’s “How Do You Do” might do the tric... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Channel Zero TV comes through with some unreleased footage of Kanye West in 2002 reciting a verse at R Kelly’s studio.   more info

MTV.co.uk News — R. Kelly has announced that his new album, his 11th solo release, is titled Black Panties. The R&B superstar said the LP would be a return to the style of his first solo album, 12 Play, which... more info

NME — Singer is promising his new LP will be a "R&B-like thriller album" more info

The Independent — R. Kelly's next album will be called 'Black Panties'. more info

ContactMusic — R Kellys next album will be called Black Panties The singer - who is currently recovering from surgery after having an abscess on one of his tonsils drained - announced the title of his next project saying it will be an RampB-like thriller a... more info

VH1 Blog — R. Kelly Rebounds From Surgery, Preps New Album R. Kelly has apparently completely recovered from his emergency throat surgery, because he appeared on Chicago’s WGCI this morning, talking about working on a new album—titled Black Panties—contai... more info

Guardian Music — It is not her 'importance' for which Aaliyah's fans remember her: it is for how she could so effortlessly tap into the human conditionShe would have been 32 this year, but you can't quite imagine Aaliyah Haughton at that age. Her death in a plane cra... more info

Guardian Music — Jay-Z gets all the best lines, but it's Kanye who seems to be in creative charge here, says Alexis PetridisYou have to be impressed with Jay-Z's resolve when it comes to the matter of collaborative albums, perhaps the one chequered area in an other... more info