Usher has crowned himself King of R&B.
Appearing on SiriusXM and Radio Andy’s “Bevelations,” the eight-time Grammy Award winner couldn’t help but twirl his own horn.
“King, whatever you want to call it,” the hitmaker told “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love” host Bevy Smith. “Yes, I’ve worked so hard that I own that, and I deserve it.”
“And I’m not going to ask for it anymore. You’re going to give it. Because I did work for it,” he added.
Elsewhere in the interview, Usher, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, stopped rumors that R&B would be a dying genre after Diddy recently suggested it.
“When I hear people, even like Puff, say, ‘You know R&B is dead.’ He sounds crazy to me,” said the “Climax” hitmaker. “It sounds, it sounds, it sounds crazy.”
“You know, especially knowing that he pioneered understanding and benefited from it. You know, the source that is R&B created the breath of life that was breathed in hip-hop. It wouldn’t be,” Usher continued.
“There wouldn’t be hip-hop if there wasn’t R&B, so it’s blasphemous to hear me say something, to hear people say something, especially hip-hop cats, to say something about R&B.”
During an Instagram Live with music producer Timbaland last week, Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, stated that “R&B is dead from now on.”
“That’s what R&B is. R&B is timeless, it won’t go away,” added Usher.