Ook Usher keert zich tegen Diddy: “R&B is not dead!”

Na Chris Brown keert ook Usher zich tegen de woorden van Diddy en laat dat duidelijk horen.

In een gesprek met Bevy Smith op SiriusXM’s Bevelations, praat de R&B superster over Diddy’s claim dat R&B dood is. “When I hear people say stuff like, ‘What happened to R&B?’ or ‘R&B is dead,’ it’s not, you just don’t understand the basis of it,” zegt Usher.

“How can something come out 20-some-odd years ago and all of a sudden have a resurgence in a way that people just want to talk about it, sing it, enjoy it?”

Verder zegt Usher dat hiphop niet zou bestaan als er geen R&B was geweest. “R&B is timeless. It ain’t gonna go away.”

“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. 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 people say anything, especially hip-hop cats, to say anything about R&B.”

Bevy verdedigde daarop Diddy. Diddy wil met de claim alleen maar promotie voor zijn aankomende R&B album. “If you really want to make something happen, I say celebrate it more than decline it. If anything, why don’t you take two minutes to really recognize the cats that are doing and give them that recognition and celebration?”

Ook Usher keert zich tegen Diddy: “R&B is not dead!”.