He believes the current music industry is experiencing a return to emotional, authentic R&B.

“it feels like the pendulum is kind of swinging back towards real R&B and like records as opposed to like, you know, whatever the [ __ ] been going on the last like five or six years, you know?”

R&B is a vital and essential genre because it provides a space to explore love, intimacy, and fun through diverse and nuanced conversations.

“Bro, listen. R&B is such an important genre. You know, it allows us to explore love. It allows us to explore intimacy. Allows us to have fun. We can have different conversations in it. It's just >> it's just an all-encompassing genre.”

He defines R&B broadly, viewing any artist who sings love songs as an R&B artist regardless of other stylistic influences.

“I see R&B differently than most people um you singing Love Songs anything that got to do with it you're an R&B singer”

Modern music industry practices prioritize viral social media moments over long-term talent and artistic development.

“The industry the industry doesn't groom legends anymore. They don't they don't groom longevity anymore because it doesn't benefit them.”

Charlamagne tha God expressed confusion regarding the current composition of the R&B group Dru Hill due to the high number of members performing on stage.

“Yo, I didn't know there was like eight members of Drew Hill now. Did you know that?”

He believes the R&B music genre has lost its way because people stopped prioritizing songs centered on vulnerability and romance.

“we fell out of love with love in music”

The group believes that their contribution to R&B music was essential to the genre's popularity and legacy.

“it's like the way music sounds now 112 had a lot to do with that because no one can really give us a group that did it the way that we did it before 112 like as far as singing over hip-hop beats and stuff like that.”

R&B is a resilient genre that adapts and evolves over time rather than dying.

“I don't know how it could ever die.”