Joe Budden is the latest celeb to weigh in on Diddy’s remarks that r&b is dead.
“That is my only beef with this. [Diddy’s] late. Every week, I’m seeing Shawn Stockman [of Boyz II Men] say this. Tank has been doing this since February. The r&b n-ggas have been behind the scenes and trying to push this conversation. That’s my issue with this,” he said. “Why that’s not an issue for me is, you need a Puff. You need the person on the next level to echo your sentiment and make it a national conversation.”
Budden’s remarks comes days after Usher responded to Diddy:
“That’s what r&b is. R&B is timeless, it ain’t gonna go away,” Usher said. “So, when I do hear people, even like Puff saying ‘r&b is dead,’ he sounds nuts to me. It sounds crazy, you know, especially knowing he was a pioneer in understanding and beneficiary of it. You know, the source that is R&B created the breath of life that was breathed into Hip Hop.”
“There wouldn’t be—there would be no Hip Hop if there were not r&b. So it’s blasphemous to hear people say anything—especially Hip Hop cats—to say anything about r&b. It’s like, nah, it’s been there. It’s gon’ stay there.”
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