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Tinashe Shuns Urban Music Genre: ‘The Music Industry Is Designed To Segregate’

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Tinashe says it is time to do away with the Urban music category and elevate people of colour in the music industry. The 27-year-old artist championed an article by Rolling Stone discussing the elimination of “urban” music.

The conversation comes as the Black Lives Matter movement continues to push against systematic racism in the U.S. and abroad.

RELATED: Tinashe Urges People To ‘Hold Their Friends And Family Accountable’ “This article is spot on— I’ve been saying it for YEARS.

The music industry is designed to segregate and that needs to end,” Tinashe tweeted on Thursday. “As a Black woman, I fought hard [as f**k], for years, to be considered ‘pop’ by my label without changing my sound because of the inevitable ceiling I felt was put on

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