The full name of R&B is Rhythm & Blues, which is generally translated as "Rhythm & Blues". In a broad sense, R&B can be regarded as "black pop music". It originated from black blues music and is the basis of today's western pop and rock. Billboard magazine once defined R&B as all black music, except for Jazz and Blues. It can be classified as R&B, which shows how broad the scope of R&B is. Hip-Hop and RAP, which have become very popular in the black music circle in recent years, both originate from R&B and retain many R&B elements.

Soul soul music, also translated as spiritual song, is a branch of American pop music.

Jazz originated from blue music, a kind of African slaves who once lived in the southern United States and folk music of their descendants. The blues was deeply influenced by West African culture and musical traditions, and these slaves also gradually became musicians for the black people who moved to the cities. Jazz is an important driving force for the origin of jazz dance, but modern jazz dance is also influenced by classical music, rock music, disco and hip hop, developing modern-jazz, disco-jazz, rock-jazz, new-jazz, etc.

Blues (also translated as blues, often translated as "resentment music" in Hong Kong and Taiwan) is a kind of vocal and instrumental music based on the pentatonic scale. Another feature of it is its special harmony. . Blues is a singing form that emerged among black folk after the Civil War. It has a direct relationship with black plantation songs (a cappella songs sung by collectives during labor). Blues originated from the hymns, hymns, labor songs, shouts and chants of African American slaves in the past. The "blues sound" used in the blues and the singing style of Qi Ying both indicate its West African origins. American popular music form. Also translated as blue tone. The original meaning is to be emotionally sad.