Big step forward @republicrecords 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Republic Records, a division of Universal Music Group, will stop the usage of the word "urban" to describe music effective immediately. In an official announcement, Republic Records acknowledged that the term "urban," which has been used to generalise Black people and music, will be removed from its verbiage and advised other labels to do the same. “We encourage the rest of the music industry to follow suit as it is important to shape the future of what we want it to look like, and not adhere to the outdated structures of the past.” The term has usually come to connote R&B and hip-hop, often lumping black music genres into one category competing for the same accolades, marginalizing black musicians and those who work with them in the process. #equality #killthenarrative #blacklivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJCGmlJUr_/?igshid=1twz7rxaanfb9
