i can't speak for everyone else.

but 'pop' to me means music that can't be defined by one genre... like that broad brittany spears, she does shit she thinks is hip hop or rock or r&b, so you can't classify her as one specific thing. she's not hip hop, she's not r&b...

'Pop' is, music popular to the masses (brittany, nsync, etc). And those pop stars trying to appease the masses (*ahem*sellout) will do any genre of music...

as for Jay-Z... i wouldn't consider him pop or that song for that matter... but he is mainstream and he is definately in mainstream's so-called-hip hop... almost as bad as pop music...

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