<p>Questions posed by Sean &#8220;<a href="/profile/Diddy" class="text-word" target="_blank" >Diddy</a>&#8221; Combs on social media have sparked several conversations about the state of R&amp;B. The genre has been under scrutiny for years as some have argued that R&amp;B&#8217;s influence in popular culture has severely declined since its reign decades ago. The new generation has sonically shifted much of what the world classifies as R&amp;B these days, and Diddy recently posed the question, &#8220;Who killed R&amp;B?&#8221; before returning to ask his followers how they defined the genre.</p>
<p>He took his conversation to Instagram Live with <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lil-kim-shares-star-studded-night-out-with-diddy-mary-j-blige-and-more-news.152213.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">good friend Mary J. Blige</a>. &#8220;You can&#8217;t kill something that&#8217;s in our DNA,&#8221; said Blige. &#8220;It&#8217;s gonna keep transitioning from generation to generation to generation to generation. They was trying to kill it.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Before I say what I&#8217;m gonna say, let me just say this: I wanna thank all the radio stations around the country that are playing R&amp;B music and sincerely support it,&#8221; the singer continued. &#8220;But, you know, a lot of the radio stations killed it, for the same thing that <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/tank-reacts-to-joe-budden-calling-new-generation-of-male-randb-artists-trash-news.144420.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tank was saying</a>. They ain&#8217;t gon&#8217; jump on the bandwagon of whatever the hottest things is—but, let me just say this. We have to keep ourselves alive as R&amp;B singers.&#8221;</p>
<p>She then named herself and several of her peers like Chaka Khan, Etta James, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Jazmine Sullivan, and SWV, stating once again that these artists&#8217; talents, and those like them, can&#8217;t be &#8220;killed.&#8221; Blige also encouraged people not to complain about radio stations and their lack of R&amp;B support, because she deemed that as sheep behavior that also contributes to the demise of the genre. &#8220;Be a shepherd,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>&#8220;They wanna call it &#8216;Popular Music&#8217; with Adele and Justin Timberlake get ahold to it, so now it&#8217;s &#8216;Popular Music.&#8217; <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/mary-j-blige-loves-the-state-of-randb-names-summer-walker-sza-ari-lennox-ella-mai-and-more-news.151855.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">But it&#8217;s been popular music</a>! We&#8217;ve been had it!&#8221; </p>
<p>Watch more from the clip of Diddy and Mary J. Blige&#8217;s conversation about why R&amp;B isn&#8217;t dead below.</p>
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