This category is about the R&B's original form. If you want to see modern R&B, click here.

Rhythm and Blues (commonly abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B) is a popular music genre that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. These are the following R&B artists that have had their songs appear in video games.