New Albums

2013 has already seen a strong year for hip-hop and R&B, but there are a few more artists who want you to make room for them in your playlists before 2014 arrives.

Always one to supply his fans with a steady stream of new music, Curren$y is slated to drop a joint EP with Smoke DZA.

In an interesting meeting of hip-hop and electronic music, rapper Freeway will release a new EP with mashup artist Girl Talk.

Pusha T's 'My Name Is Name' is the last scheduled major rap release this year beside Eminem's 'Marshall Mathers LP 2' in November. Pusha's solo debut did better than Drake's 'Nothing Was the Same' in the leaks department, as only a few snippets and officially released singles were heard up to this point. Now 'MNIMN' is available for streaming courtesy of Myspace.

Chris Brown has been curiously quiet recently, withholding any new information about his upcoming sixth studio album, 'X.' Any hype has been dying down with the slew of big fall releases currently dropping, although the singer recently ending his beef with Drake may be for publicity. That's admittedly up for debate. What is no longer up for debate, however, is the release date for Brown's new LP,

To recap Miley Cyrus' activities over the past month or so, we had that infamous MTV Video Music Awards performance with Robin Thicke, her nude scenes in that 'Wrecking Ball' video, the iHeart Radio Music Festival performance where she cried while singing that song and finally the so-ridiculous-it-might-be-true rumors of her getting pregnant with Juicy J's child. It's news for us, but for Cyrus it

It was only a short time ago when  Danny Brown became so frustrated with the delays behind 'Old' that he threatened to leak the album. Soon after, a release date was announced for Sept. 30. That day is today and Brown's highly anticipated follow up to 'XXX' is available.

Some of your favorite R&B artists are ringing in the holidays on the official soundtrack for the upcoming flick, 'The Best Man Holiday.'

Today (Sept. 24) brings some good news for a select group of people. If you're one of the Drake fans who've been waiting eight days to legally listen to 'Nothing Was the Same' but aren't ready to pay for the album quite yet, you're in luck. Spotify has the effort available for streaming. The stream excludes 'The Motto,' the album's Best Buy bonus track.

The rollout to Justin Timberlake's new album, 'The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2,' isn't too different from the first half of the project. There are the two singles ('Take Back the Night' and 'TKO'), the tour to promote the album (this time it's the 20/20 Experience World Tour after the Legends of the Summer Tour with Jay Z), and now, the early album stream.