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The label Republic Records -- home to top artists including Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift -- on Friday vowed to ban the word "urban" as a generalization for hip-hop and R&B. Many see it as an antiquated umbrella term -- it is still used to describe many awards at the Grammys -- that ignorantly lumps all music by black artists into the same grab-bag. The label, a division of Universal, said it would remove "urban" from department names, employee titles and music genres. Use of "urban" in music jargon dates back to the mid-1970s, according to Billboard, which says the black WBLS New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker used the phrase "urban contemporary." 1991: The Most Important Year in Pop-Music History https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2015/05/1991-the-most-important-year-in-music/392642/ The very white ways of the top 40 https://theoutline.com/post/1148/the-very-white-ways-of-the-american-top-40?zd=1&zi=2ywdcne4 The change in charts used to calculate the top 40 also had a convenient side effect