On this page you can listen to free radio stations that play Urban Contemporary music, which includes such better-known genres as hip-hop, rap, R&B, Quiet Storm, Soul and other. These styles originated in the United States, influent of African American expressive culture and are characterized as rhythmic music.
Hip-hop usually built around drum beats, can accompanied by rapping - a rhythmic and rhyming speech, but rap is not a necessary component of this genre. That genre may include sampling beats or bass lines and rhythmic beatboxing.
R&B music is soft, light, blending into one sound, creating momentum and rhythmic, often performed by a band including piano, guitars, bass, drums and saxophone, often augmented by background vocalists.