ATLANTA, GA - AUGUST 10: Chris Brown performs during Chris Brown and Lil Baby "One Of Them Ones" Tour at Cellairis Amphitheatre at Lakewood on August 10, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.(Prince Williams/Wireimage)
<p>Chris Brown isn&#8217;t here for the &#8220;R&;B is dead&#8221; conversation on social media. On August 17, <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/video-yung-miami-denies-her-mental-breakdown-was-about-diddy-and-says-shes-not-kevin-gates-acne-bae/">Diddy sparked</a> days of talks about the genre after tweeting, <em>&#8220;who killed R&;B?&#8221; </em>and following up with <em>&#8220;what is your definition of R&;B?&#8221; </em></p>
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<p>Artists and producers, from Summer Walker and Tory Lanez to Hitmaka, responded to Diddy&#8217;s assumption that R&;B is out of here. Chris took to his Instagram platform on August 20 to slam the talks and shift the blame to a lack of desire for real singers, lack of coverage, and ugliness.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When&#8217;s the last time you heard a slow song on the radio,&#8221; Chris wrote on Instagram Story. &#8220;N—s saying R&;B is dead&#8230;respectfully shut up. People nowadays want fast food instead of a real meal.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Chris then shifted his rant to highlight the lack of media coverage on R&;B.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t blame the real singers out here bekuz what channels do people have to see music videos. BET damn sure don&#8217;t. Neither does MTV,&#8221; Chris wrote.</p></blockquote>
<p>Like Chris, Diddy also called out a public entity and their influence on the consumption and reward behind R&;B. On August 19, he called out Billboard and their genre categorization.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now that I have your attention..I hope you all understand how important R&;B is to our culture!! We need more love!! We need more soul,&#8221; Diddy wrote. In a separate tweet, he wrote, &#8220;@Billboard why was R&;B and Hip-Hop put on the same chart to compete with each other? Can someone in charge over there explain to us WHY?!!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chris Brown Says Garbage Music Is Being Forced On Audiences </strong></h5>
<p><a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/chris-brown-defends-viral-meet-greet-fan-photos-i-have-the-coolest-fans-on-the-planet/">Breezy also blamed</a> the lack of digestible music on the market due to the music industry&#8217;s choices of stars.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;And then the industry be forcing s—t on people when the real music lovers know that s—t is garbage,&#8221; Chris wrote.</p></blockquote>
<p>Along with his tweets, Diddy solicited conversations about the genre with famous artists and producers/writers. For example, he spoke to Tory Lanez, who disagreed that R&;B is dead but said its culture is. Tory added that there seems to be the sentiment that R&;B has to be &#8220;as raw and rugged&#8221; as what&#8217;s going on outside.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now it&#8217;s like this thing where it gotta be toxic. As the n—a who started and been doing this toxic s—t for about 8,9 years on the R&;b, it don&#8217;t gotta be toxic my n—a. I wanna hear about love again. I feel like there&#8217;s not enough moments in R&;B now.&#8221; He added, &#8220;it&#8217;s the culture of it that I think is dead.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Summer Walker, Jermaine Dupri, And HitMaka Join The Convo</strong></h5>
<p>On August 19, Diddy also posted snippets of him discussing the genre with Summer Walker and Jermaine Dupri. Summer&#8217;s clip highlighted the current desire for shorter music versus the once traditional lengthy R&;B songs.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The time thing is really a thing. I&#8217;ve heard that a million times, &#8216;Oh Summer it&#8217;s too long, it&#8217;s too long.&#8217; Like, I remember when songs back in the day was literally like six minutes long, five minutes long and it&#8217;s okay. I mean, if it&#8217;s f—ing music especially like let it go,&#8221; Summer said.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Meanwhile, <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/producer-self-service-accuses-jermaine-dupri-of-stealing-beats-jermaine-responds-gtfoh/">Jermaine said</a> the solution to R&;B&#8217;s success is young artists who want to model what he, Puff Daddy, and other successful producers/artists have done.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;The quarterbacks in the 90s was the n—s that was shielding the R&;B and making sure that the R&;B sounded and looked the way it was looking.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<p>However, HitMaka seemed to be closer to Chris Brown&#8217;s wave. One day after Diddy&#8217;s initial tweet about R&;B, HitMaka blasted his words on Instagram and Twitter.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Diddy done lost his whole damn mind talking bout R&;B dead. It&#8217;s so much good R&;B out if u can&#8217;t notice u gotta be outta touch,&#8221; HitMaka tweeted. &#8220;Stop trolling.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>He reposted the tweet to his Instagram page. He tagged multiple artists, including Chris Brown, H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan, Tink, Jhene Aiko, Usher, Jeremih, Bryson Tiller, Summer Walker DVSN, and Silk Sonic.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I feel u tho whatever to make the single go #1,&#8221; HitMaka wrote in his Instagram caption. &#8220;Is <em>Gotta Move On </em>bringing R&;B back 2 life? #Respectfully&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Chris Says Folks Are &#8220;Just Ugly,&#8221; Diddy Seemingly Responds </strong></h5>
<p>Chris finished off his rant against the R&;B conversation with what seemed like a little trolling.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;R&;B ain&#8217;t dead&#8230;y&#8217;all n—s just ugly,&#8221; Chris wrote.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Within a few hours of Chris&#8217;s post, Diddy tweeted about the debate. He clarified that his message was meant out of love versus disrespect.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been 3 days of the debate&#8230;this is the clarity of the message&#8230;it&#8217;s not disrespect to anybody,&#8221; Diddy wrote. &#8220;This conversation was out of love and me purposely wanting to bring attention to R&;B! It was something that I saw the effect of the hip-hop and R&;B balance. That balance is honesty and realness when it comes together, melodies, vulnerability and most importantly LOVE!!!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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