Taking to social media days ago, Diddy addressed a recent that ‘R&B is dead’ which he stated during an Instagram Live with Timbaland last week.

LOVE’s assertion appeared to have sat wrongly with music lovers, who quickly stormed social media to lambast the music mogul. However, the 52-year-old has responded to the backlash and explained his statement and the reason for it.

He tweeted, “It’s been 3 days of debate… This is the clarity of the message… It’s not disrespect to anybody.”

Adding, “This conversation was out of love and me purposely wanting to bring attention to R&B! It was something that I saw the effect of the Hip hop and R&B balance. That balance is honesty and realness when it comes together, melodies, vulnerability and most importantly LOVE!!!”

In conclusion, Diddy stated: “That balance is honesty and realness when it comes together, melodies, vulnerability and most importantly LOVE!!”

Diddy’s tweets comes after his Instagram Live with the Verzuz co-founder, where the two discussed the current state of the music industry, amongst other things, with LOVE suggesting that “R&B is muthaf*ckin’ dead as of right now.”

He goes on to say, “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 shit is about feeling your vulnerability.”

Diddy breaks it down, saying: “You gotta muthaf*ckin make a n***a dick 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 […] 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 shit back! I ain’t feelin’ no emotions.”

DIddy’s comments at the time seeme dto have riled up some of the industry’s best R&B artists, with Chris Brown taking to his Instagram Story and asking the music mogul to “respectfully shut up.”

Brent Faiyaz, an American singer and songwriter, also expressed his take on the subject, tweeting: “Don’t nobody care about music genres anymore, dat sh*t primitive. Sauce dat shit up & let it fly.”

Diddy isn’t the only musician to express concern for the genre. Mary J. Blige recently shared her views on the beloved genre in a livestream with Diddy, claiming that radio stations are to be blamed for calling R&B music Pop, anytime white artists such as Adele and Justin Timberlake release music.

She said in the livestream, “You can’t kill something that’s in our DNA. It’s gonna keep transitioning from generation to generation to generation to generation. They was trying to kill it.

“They wanna call it ‘Popular Music’ [when] Adele and Justin Timberlake get ahold to it, so now it’s ‘Popular Music,’” she stated. “But it’s been popular music! We’ve been had it!”

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