Usher reacted to Diddy’s Instagram Live claim that r&b is dead.
“When I do hear people, even like Puff saying, you know R&B is dead, he sounds nuts to me. It sounds, it sounds, it sounds crazy. You know, especially knowing he was a pioneer in understanding and beneficiary of it,” he said on Bevelations.
He continued, “You know, the source that is R&B created the breath of life that was breathed into Hip Hop. It wouldn’t be. There would be no Hip Hop if there were not R&B, so it’s blasphemous to hear me say, to hear people say anything, especially Hip Hop cats, to say anything about R&B.”
On Instagram Live, Diddy said:
“R&B is muthaf-ckin’ dead as of right now,” he shouted. “The R&B I made my babies to? R&B gotta be judged to a certain thing — it’s the feeling though, doggy. No, no, no. It’s a feeling. You gotta be able to sing for R&B and then you gotta tell the truth. R&B is not a hustle. This sh-t is about feeling your vulnerability.”
“You gotta muthaf-ckin make a n-gga d-ck hard or a woman’s vagina wet. You gotta cry. You gotta be able to get your girl back. I don’t wanna hear all this bullsh-t,” said Diddy. “It’s our fault for accepting anything less for anybody getting on a mic. I feel like there was a death of R&B singing, and I’m a part of bringing that sh-t back! I ain’t feelin’ no emotions.”
Who is right?
