I mean.. I think he has a point. The equivalencies weren't the best though..

The REAL issue regarding black performed music and radio (in the IS) is something Ebro has discussed before though. The path to pop for a black artist in the US almost ALWAYS has to go through Urban, Urban A/C channels. Any number of things can happen that keep a record from "crossing over" (run out of money, ppl lose interest, another "like" record in its slot etc).

When Sam Smith has a record he starts at Z100. When John Legend has a record he HAS to start at Urban or Urban A/C. The path to pop for a black artist in the US almost ALWAYS has to go through Urban, Urban A/C channels. Any number of things can happen that keep a record from "crossing over" (run out of money, ppl lose interest etc).

Most white pop artists never have to worry about crossing over unless it's in the reverse (Lorde, Iggy going to Urban AFTER they've blown).

There are people who break this mold obviously. Nicki, Beyonce, Rihanna go straight to pop radio because of the size of their audience.

What he doesn't say though is by adding and streaming, youtube views to chart calculations songs can fully circumvent urban now as well (If the audience is big enough). They can also do it by going international first (although that eliminates a lot of rap songs since they might not translate well overseas)

Specifically, for a rapper/s it is hard. But Fetty Wap, Shmurda, OT Genasis are definitively proving it can be done again by smashing the internet metrics

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