Republic Records Ditches ‘Urban’ Genre Tag, Urges Rest Of Music Industry To Do The Same

Republic Records — home of artists like The Weeknd, James Blake, Taylor Swift, and Ariana Grande — has announced its binning its ‘urban’ genre category, amid the Black Lives Matter movement.

The tag has historically been used as an umbrella term encompassing hip-hop, R&B and other music pioneered by black artists, and the team at Republic reckons it’s time it went in the bin.…

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