Rap and R&B have always been cousins, both aesthetically and culturally. Today the distinction is all but blurred by singing rappers like Future and Drake and vice versa, but the marriage was at its peak in the ’90s, when Sean “Puffy” Combs was grooming Bad Boy Records foursome 112 and Jodeci was giving girls heart attacks. Rather than revisit the prominent records, here we look past the big hits at some of the more slept on gems of the period.
