Mariah The Scientist Challenges Racialized Music Genres & Seeks to Define Her Own

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Mariah The Scientist is speaking out against the racialization of music genres, particularly in the case of her categorization as an "R&B" artist.  #hiphop #hiphopnews #music #musicnews #rapnews #sohh #sohhdotcom #sohhnews #mariahthescientist #randb #musicgenres

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00:00 Anybody that sings and is black or like they think you might be black they like put you in this category of

00:06 she make R&B music and it's like

00:08 Why because I'm singing about this and it's like what what really defines R&B?

00:14 What does that mean or like what really defines alternative if Lana Del Rey is singing about

00:20 Heartbreak why is her album categorized as alternative and then like I put some music out and it's automatically

00:27 Supposed to be R&B. What if it's neither of those? I

00:30 Told somebody that I wanted to make a new genre and I want to call it a and B as an alternative and blues

00:38 But I feel like if I did make that that's what I would fall into

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