Rap-pop needs to be officiated as a thing. A lotta mfs out here making rap-pop but the weird way we view hiphop in relation to vocals and genre makes nobody peep that

Yeah by Usher is the king rap-pop song for example

My d*** hurts please get off

You find me in every thread

I know this was label doing it but yeah this makes that tweet age so badly 😭😭😭

Your mans fav song atm

Easy steal

Like taking candy from a yn

Category fraud is nothing new. The Bear is a comedy!

this man makes neo blue eyed soul. when he tweeted that s*** it was a dogwhistle to distance himself from being "boxed in" as Black music. who cares if his label were the one to submit it? at the end of the day he's just another appropriating d***head.

LMFAOOO

Wait…a whole West Coast grunge/rap-pop album with Thriller style songmaking

Pop-rap has been a thing. Drake, Nicki Minaj, Flo Rida, Pitbull been known for it the most.

Get this cracker out of here

Shiiit I'd argue if B.O.B. didn't fall off the edge of the flat earth, he'd have expanded his influence a great deal

True true. But when you look at acts like Flo Rida, were they actually taken seriously in hip hop? It's almost like when Luda had to switch up from being a "Comedy rapper" to be taken seriously. Not the same thing I know, but there's a "otherness" that's often associated with the purely pop rappers

Idk if Luda was a good example, because I felt people took him seriously and gave him a huge amount of respect.

This is crazy because it's obvious he not Hip-Hop

I have no clue what people mad at

Nah but that's just how rap artists and rap fans always viewed pop music. Yeah it's rap but it's not rap that is "for the culture" as obnoxious as that phrase has become.

Pop-rap acts like Flo Rida and Pitbull very likely don't care though because they ended up becoming global acts and getting a lot of bread performing wherever.

Personally, I feel like if you making rap music that's palatable for a wide variety of cultures across the world, that's taking the genre to a new level. And is kinda part of the essence of what hip-hop is about. Music for the people that brings them together

His run in the early 2000's was definitely appreciated but was he ever considered in the goat convo like that during that era with the Nasirs and Hovs and Eminems. I remember listening to Release Therapy and thinking that he'd taken a different turn.

Well put, and for the record, I'm not actually mad at the lane, sometimes all you need is bouncy bops

Balance in the mainstream hip hop scene is what's missing nowadays.

they use it when its convenient they drop it when its not this nigga makes bullshit music anyway so who cares

yea we know his team submitted it, doesn't make him any less corny