People have been talking about the so-called “death of R&B” for over a decade now. It has been the subject of countless think-pieces, panels, Twitter debates, and Clubhouse rooms. The conversation gained steam again last summer when Sean “Diddy” Combs posed the question on an IG Live roundtable; “who killed R&B?” While the genre has no-doubt lost some salience since the 90s and 2000s when it thrived in tandem with hip-hop as one of the industry’s biggest cash cows, Diddy’s presumption is still unfair.
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