Tommy Richman sent Rap Twitter into a frenzy last night (Oct. 2.) The singer out of Virginia — whose single “ Million Dollar Baby ” went viral and was on its way to dominating the summer until the Kendrick and Drake battle thwarted those dreams — sent out a now-deleted tweet seemingly distancing himself from the genre that propelled him to sudden stardom.
“I am not a hip hop artist,” he said before trying to clarify what he meant after the tweet started to take off. He then got into a back and forth with popular West Coast radio personality DJ Hed with the DJ responding to Tommy’s original tweet by saying Hip-Hop stations should stop playing his music. “Fasho.
So every Hip-Hop station playing [‘Million Dollar Baby’] or [‘ Devil Is A Lie ‘] should stop today. Thanks for the Heds Up?” See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Fasho. So every Hip-Hop station playing MDB or DIAL should stop today.
Thanks for the Heds Up ✊🏾 https://t.co/JTsg7SthOb Hed then sent out a couple tweets saying he suddenly had “ 2 open slots ” available on his SiriusXM radio show and that “ NO ONE is bigger than the culture .” Richman responded to the former with a quote tweet, saying, “I’ll say again, Im thankful for everything.
I’m saying I don’t wanna be boxed in. I grew up on hip hop. But I’m a singer.
” I’ll say again, Im thankful for everything. I’m saying I don’t wanna be boxed in. I grew up on hip hop.
But I’m a.