Pop isn't a a genre
pop stations = top 40 ie popular cuts, why would they play artists like thread who aren't charting, tyrese isn't getting play from urban format and the type of music he makes isn't even getting spins from what would normally be the audience for r&b. A segment of Black Women 28-44 heard that album, bet. Black folks have abandoned traditional r&b and to support the misogynistic thugged out drugged out bullshyt from these auto tune singing idiots...no way artists like tank, tyrese, sevyn streeter, faith Evans, etc see a top 40 stations. In the 80's-90's, r&b dominated the pop charts...
Hurts to say it's the truth