Tommy Richman Says He Isn’t Hip-Hop, Immediately Backtracks After Backlash

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?” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news 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...