Miley Cyrus crawling back to hip-hop

[Judo]

It Only Took a Year for Miley Cyrus to Pivot Back to Hip-Hop
After publicly criticizing rappers in a tone deaf interview last year, Miley is back to making hip-hop-indebted music for her next album.

A year after leaving hip-hop behind for more hypothetically lucrative pastures, Miley Cyrus is staging her return. It looks like there was more money to be made in the genre that brought her the most success she’s seen in her career, despite her very public capitulation to folkier (and whiter) sounds. During an interview with 95.5 PLJ, Cyrus explained that she’s working with Mike Will Made-It, the executive producer of 2013’s Bangerz, again on her upcoming album.


“We’ve got songs with Mike Will that lean more hip-hop and songs with Andrew Wyatt that lean more pop/alternative,” Miley said. “I just have kind of everything.”

This comes just one year after Miley made a point to distance herself from hip-hop in a tone deaf 2017 interview with Billboard.

“But I also love that new Kendrick [Lamar] song [‘Humble’]: ‘Show me somethin’ natural like ass with some stretch marks.’ I love that because it’s not ‘Come sit on my dikk, suck on my cock.’ I can’t listen to that anymore,” she said. “That’s what pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little. It was too much ‘Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my cock’ — I am so not that.”

After critics started to label Cyrus a culture vulture, she responded in a since-deleted 2017 Instagram post that also lacked nuance, opting instead to dabble in respectability politics that evinced a deep misunderstanding of hip-hop culture. “I have always and will continue to love and celebrate hip hop as I’ve collaborated with some of the very best,” the post read. “At this point in my life I am expanding personally/musically and gravitating more towards uplifting, conscious rap! As I get older I understand the effect music has on the world & Seeing where we are today I feel the younger generation needs to hear positive powerful lyrics!” However, the allure of cashing in on the United States’ most consumed genre must have been too great, just one year later.

The quick pivot back is unsurprising. The response to her country-tinged next effort,Younger Now, was lackluster. Miley’s sixth studio album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 and sold 45,000 units in its first week. That’s compared to Bangerz, which went number one with 270,000 in sales its first week. Bangerz is certified triple platinum; Younger Nowhas failed to go gold.

The world doesn’t need any more hip-hop-inspired Miley Cyrus music, but history shows that it, at the very least, sells.

 

[Jean Jacket]

 

[Sauce Dab]

Everybody seen through her bullshyt trying to throw hip hop to the side and cross back over to country and even country was like

Now her next album is going to have multiple Mike Will beats and a few rapper features. Lil Baby and Gunna probably gone make appearances on there. They've been on everybody's projects

 

[MrRDU]

MikeWill a bytch

 

[Yade]

Y’all still gonna support Mike Will like y’all support 21 Savage

 

[ORDER_66]

This bytch got no dignity or no shame culture vulture having ass chick... You got millions already move the fukk on...

 

[Dwight Howard]

Ima wait and see what the content of the songs are before making a judgement. I have no issue with her using rap production but if the content is the same shyt she criticized. She a hypocrite plain and simple. I wanna see her put her money where her mouth at

 

[AQz]

I don’t rock with her or anybody that rocks with her

 

[RNS]

Everybody seen through her bullshyt trying to throw hip hop to the side and cross back over to country and even country was like

Now her next album is going to have multiple Mike Will beats and a few rapper features. Lil Baby and Gunna probably gone make appearances on there. They've been on everybody's projects

nikka!!!... that smiley.. is that dude with the talons hand? .. I can’t deal with you nikkas

 

[JustCKing]

Outside of "23", when was Miley ever Hip Hop? And that was a Mike Will song featuring Miley. If working with Hip Hop producers is all it takes to be Hip Hop, then we need to evaluate the meaning.

 

[R=G]

Outside of "23", when was Miley ever Hip Hop? And that was a Mike Will song featuring Miley. If working with Hip Hop producers is all it takes to be Hip Hop, then we need to evaluate the meaning.

She damn sure wasnt doing Carrie Underwood music at her height.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

 

[GPBear]

I knew Billy Ray Cyrus should've been castrated when I heard Achey Brakey Heart

fukking modern day Beverley Hillbilly

 

[JustCKing]

She damn sure wasnt doing Carrie Underwood music at her height.

She wasn't Nicki Minaj at her height either. The hit she had with Mike Will "Can't Stop" wasn't a Hip Hop record (was actually a Rihanna reject) and the other singles were definitely more Carrie Underwood/Taylor Swift than Nicki Minaj.

 

[R=G]

She wasn't Nicki Minaj at her height either. The hit she had with Mike Will "Can't Stop" wasn't a Hip Hop record (was actually a Rihanna reject) and the other singles were definitely more Carrie Underwood/Taylor Swift than Nicki Minaj.

She did some pop song shyt using Jay Z as a singalong chorus...lol. Like he was a puppet.