Giveon Gets Back To The Roots Of Soul With ‘Beloved’

Getty Image/Merle Cooper Even though recent discussions about whether R&B and soul music have died have been overblown, there’s still a nugget of truth somewhere in all the noise. Once upon a time, it was kind of a mark of music media’s inherent racism that singers kept getting classified as rappers in news coverage — especially when it was negative. But as Long Beach singer Giveon rightly pointed out in an interview with Uproxx last week ahead of his new album Beloved, the increasing influence rap has had over R&B’s sound and content has made that tendency less and less of a mala