Chris Brown Slams “R&B Is Dead” Convo, Diddy Says It Wasn’t Disrespect

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Chris Brown isn’t right here for the “R&B is useless” dialog on social media. On August 17, Diddy sparked days of talks concerning the style after tweeting, “who killed R&B?” and following up with “what’s your definition of R&B?” 

Artists and producers, from Summer time Walker and Tory Lanez to Hitmaka, responded to Diddy’s assumption that R&B is out of right here. Chris took to his Instagram platform on August 20 to slam the talks and shift the blame to an absence of want for actual singers, lack of protection, and ugliness.

“When’s the final time you heard a gradual music on the radio,” Chris wrote on Instagram Story. “N—s saying R&B is useless…respectfully shut up. Individuals these days need quick meals as a substitute of an actual meal.”

Chris then shifted his rant to spotlight the dearth of media protection on R&B.

“Don’t blame the actual singers out right here bekuz what channels do folks should see music movies. BET rattling positive don’t. Neither does MTV,” Chris wrote.

Like Chris, Diddy additionally referred to as out a public entity and their affect on the consumption and reward behind R&B. On August 19, he referred to as out Billboard and their style categorization.

“Now that I’ve your consideration..I hope you all perceive how necessary R&B is to our tradition!! We want extra love!! We want extra soul,” Diddy wrote. In a separate tweet, he wrote, “@Billboard why was R&B and Hip-Hop placed on the identical chart to compete with one another? Can somebody in cost over there clarify to us WHY?!!”

Chris Brown Says Rubbish Music Is Being Compelled On Audiences 

Breezy additionally blamed the dearth of digestible music available on the market as a result of music business’s decisions of stars.

“After which the business be forcing s—t on folks when the actual music lovers know that s—t is rubbish,” Chris wrote.

Alongside together with his tweets, Diddy solicited conversations concerning the style with well-known artists and producers/writers. For instance, he spoke to Tory Lanez, who disagreed that R&B is useless however mentioned its tradition is. Tory added that there appears to be the sentiment that R&B needs to be “as uncooked and rugged” as what’s occurring outdoors.

“Now it’s like this factor the place it gotta be poisonous. Because the n—a who began and been doing this poisonous s—t for about 8,9 years on the R&b, it don’t gotta be poisonous my n—a. I wanna hear about love once more. I really feel like there’s not sufficient moments in R&B now.” He added, “it’s the tradition of it that I feel is useless.”

Summer time Walker, Jermaine Dupri, And HitMaka Be a part of The Convo

On August 19, Diddy additionally posted snippets of him discussing the style with Summer time Walker and Jermaine Dupri. Summer time’s clip highlighted the present want for shorter music versus the as soon as conventional prolonged R&B songs.

“The time factor can be a factor. I’ve heard that one million instances, ‘Oh Summer time it’s too lengthy, it’s too lengthy.’ Like, I keep in mind when songs again within the day was actually like six minutes lengthy, 5 minutes lengthy and it’s okay. I imply, if it’s f—ing music particularly like let it go,” Summer time mentioned.

In the meantime, Jermaine mentioned the answer to R&B’s success is younger artists who wish to mannequin what he, Puff Daddy, and different profitable producers/artists have completed.

“…The quarterbacks within the 90s was the n—s that was shielding the R&B and ensuring that the R&B sounded and regarded the best way it was trying.”

Nevertheless, HitMaka appeared to be nearer to Chris Brown’s wave. In the future after Diddy’s preliminary tweet about R&B, HitMaka blasted his phrases on Instagram and Twitter.

“Diddy completed misplaced his complete rattling thoughts speaking bout R&B useless. It’s a lot good R&B out if u can’t discover u gotta be outta contact,” HitMaka tweeted. “Cease trolling.”

He reposted the tweet to his Instagram web page. He tagged a number of artists, together with Chris Brown, H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan, Tink, Jhene Aiko, Usher, Jeremih, Bryson Tiller, Summer time Walker DVSN, and Silk Sonic.

“I really feel u tho no matter to make the one go #1,” HitMaka wrote in his Instagram caption. “Is Gotta Transfer On bringing R&B again 2 life? #Respectfully”

Chris Says Of us Are “Simply Ugly,” Diddy Seemingly Responds 

Chris completed off his rant towards the R&B dialog with what appeared like somewhat trolling.

“R&B ain’t useless…y’all n—s simply ugly,” Chris wrote.

Inside a number of hours of Chris’s submit, Diddy tweeted concerning the debate. He clarified that his message was meant out of affection versus disrespect.

“It’s been 3 days of the controversy…that is the readability of the message…it’s not disrespect to anyone,” Diddy wrote. “This dialog was out of affection and me purposely desirous to carry consideration to R&B! It was one thing that I noticed the impact of the hip-hop and R&B steadiness. That steadiness is honesty and realness when it comes collectively, melodies, vulnerability and most significantly LOVE!!!”