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Music by Black Artists for Black History Month
Audiosocket's royalty free music by black artists collection spotlights Black musicians, leading with hip-hop pop and R&B, then underground hip hop, Afrobeat, soul and funk. Percussion, electronic production and keyboards drive an almost entirely vocal set whose moods run from swagger and exciting to love, hope and inspiring. Tracks like Codeword For A Change by All Good Funk Alliance and Energy by Fineprint serve Black History Month campaigns, culture content and education.
46 tracks2 hr 26 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
Contemporary hip-hop pop is the largest group by far, followed by contemporary R&B, underground hip hop, Afrobeat, soul and funk, with a few rock and pop tracks. The recorded reference points span Jurassic 5 and Del the Funky Homosapien on the conscious hip hop side, Bruno Mars and Khalid on the pop and R&B side, and T-Pain and trap on the club side. Soldiers by Dangerflow and Fool Me Once by Daniel in Stereo show the breadth.
Several tracks are labeled Clean in their titles, including One More Time (Clean) by REVL TVLK, The Animal's Instinct (feat. Thegoodnews) (Clean) by CTZN and The Shift (Clean) by Taylar Elizza Beth, while others such as Colorblind (feat. Soul Gem) (vocal) EXPLICIT by Pasha and Love Junkie (Wallpaper Remix) (vocal) EXPLICIT by Tanya Morgan are flagged explicit. Educators and brands should filter by the title tag; untagged tracks like Energy by Fineprint are also safe defaults.
Almost the entire collection is vocal, with only a very small share instrumental, and Lotus by Purporangejuice is the instrumental to audition first. The vocals are the point of the selection, since the collection celebrates voices as much as production. If a Black History Month video needs a wordless bed under narration, use Lotus or search the wider hip hop and R&B catalog for instrumental beats.
The set suits Black History Month campaigns, school and library programming, employee resource group videos, culture and fashion content and music-led social reels, with recorded themes of city life, everyday fashion, night life, romance and hope. Tracks average a little over three minutes, and the mood range from inspiring and hopeful to swagger and dramatic lets one collection carry both a reflective tribute and a high-energy celebration.
Royalty free here means you pay for a license through a subscription and never owe per-play or per-view royalties afterward, and every license issued is perpetual for the finished work it covers. The artists are independent musicians and composers who are paid through the licensing model, so licensing the music is the way to support them. Tiers run from Individual to Large Business, with Personal, Commercial and Music-as-a-Service plan types.