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Beyonce and Rihanna can release anything and it will be considered urban, despite the fact that it isn't and never will be.
Miley's song may have some urban influence, but not enough to label it as 'black music'.
It's almost outrageous to call it that.
It's like calling Scream & Shout "black people music".
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz please read this CAREFULLY, don't skim:
Beyonce and Rihanna can release anything and it will be considered urban, despite the fact that it isn't and never will be.
Miley's song may have some urban influence, but not enough to label it as 'black music'.
It's almost outrageous to call it that.
It's like calling Scream & Shout "black people music".
I wouldn't call Young Right Now urban. I'd call You Da One urban, even though it could have been sung by any pasty white starlet, like Austin Mahone, but Rihanna adds this EBT accent to it that makes it more low-income new-york appropriate.
Of course it was. It got to number #2 in Ukraine, his previous single Just A Friend got to #1 in Ukraine and the one before that, Say Somethin' also go to #2. What kind of international, Ukrainian-smashing superstar, when will your fave?
Austin Mahonie won a VMA, appeared on stage, and still didn't trend on Google.
All of this exposure and he's about as relevant as K$ Right Now
.