Republic Records Removes the Term “Urban” from their Verbiage

[Jose P 23,341]

 

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Let's hope Grammy's follow suit. I know there were a lot of artist in the past who protested it.

[Rat Boy 43,595]

Inb4 "iT's JuSt a WurD".

[weed 74,238]

wowww that's crazy. Literally a massive cultural moment rn. I agree, as well as categorizing a lot of black artists as rap/hiphop when they clearly venture into other genres/pop

[ice bear 1]

amazing

keep it going with not categorizing every black artist as hip hop

[Gracious Gaga 17,163]

good. lots of work to be done.

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32 minutes ago, Jose P said:

 

They finally realized URBAN was offensive.

[ToxicHot 6,444]

(This is great, I’m not defending this at all)

 

What does this mean for categorization? They’re just gonna use genres to group artists rather than this umbrella term??

[whore 11,447]

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[AndyDWUW 3,971]

All this virtue signaling does nothing if the working class (including black communities) still get paid starvation wages, don’t have healthcare, cannot afford education, etc to help them ECONOMICALLY better their living conditions

 

Something is something I guess. 

[alice911 536]

What does this mean? less categories and more competition at the grammies or will they invent new categories? how will beyonce win her annual 1-2 fraud grammies every year if the urban category is removed?

[Kindness Ponk 2,994]

5 minutes ago, alice911 said:

What does this mean? less categories and more competition at the grammies or will they invent new categories? how will beyonce win her annual 1-2 fraud grammies every year if the urban category is removed?

im thinking the exact same thing OMG

[GoldenPonyboy 2,401]

2 hours ago, ice bear said:

amazing

keep it going with not categorizing every black artist as hip hop

I remember rihanna being nominated as rnb at the AMA during the Loud era like that wasnt her most pop era. For an album like anti sure but Loud was clearly pop. 
anyways if you ask me we should do away will all music genres, it makes some people so biased

[BillieGOAT 5,233]

Thank God that category/term in music always makes me cringe 

[COOOK 76,406]