R&B/Hip-Hop Fresh Picks of the Week: 3Quency, Queen Naija, Veeze, Errol Holden & More

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9/9/2025

Brianna Mazzola, Nori Royale, and Wennely Quezada of 3Quency astatine the MTV Video Music Awards 2025 held astatine UBS Arena connected September 07, 2025 successful New York, New York.

As the archetypal autumn breezes commencement to drift crossed New York City, Billboard helped usher retired the summertime play with its yearly R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players Week.

On Wednesday (Sept. 3), Unfiltered Live welcomed its precise archetypal in-studio assemblage for a Cash Cobain and Zeddy Will-led debate astir the existent king oregon queen of New York rap. That aforesaid day, The Orchard hosted a peculiar speech (“The Future of Hip-Hop Is Global”) astatine NeueHouse Madison Square. On Thursday (Sept. 4), Billboard honored respective stars crossed R&B, hip-hop and African euphony astatine its Unveiled-hosted Power Players event, including screen stars Leon Thomas and Cardi B, arsenic good arsenic Wu-Tang Clan, Ravyn Lenae, Odeal, GELO, Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith and Alamo Records.

To adjacent retired the week (Sept. 5), Billboard also teamed up with UBS and EZMNY for a cocktail enactment honoring Thomas, Ty Dolla $ign and seasoned A&R exec Shawn Barron. That precise evening, Thomas, Lenade, Odeal, GELO and rising dancehall prima Armanii blew the extortion disconnected of Webster Hall during Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Live concert.

Outside of Billboard‘s festivities, the hip-hop and R&B worlds remained busy. Mariah Carey (Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award) and Busta Rhymes (Rock the Bells Visionary Award) were 2 of the main honorees astatine the MTV Video Music Awards (Sept. 8), Young Thug rocked the timeline with a bid of leaked jailhouse calls and an explosive caller interview, and Kendrick Lamar took location his second vocation Emmy for champion euphony absorption for his seismic Super Bowl LIX halftime show.

With Fresh Picks, Billboard aims to item immoderate of the champion and astir absorbing caller sounds crossed R&B and hip-hop — from 3Quency’s debut azygous to Errol Holden and Black Thought’s caller collaboration. Be definite to cheque retired this week’s Fresh Picks successful our Spotify playlist below.

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