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The creator behind The Greatest Enemy builds their work within a long line of R&B practice rooted in the Philippines, a body of work that expands the global conversation around what R&B can be, and how regional artistic identities shape the genre’s ongoing evolution. This sound sits within a growing wave of R&B from the Philippines that is part of the global expansion of the genre, challenging long-held assumptions about where R&B is created and who gets to contribute to its ongoing story. For too long, mainstream narratives of R&B’s history have centered a small set of regions, ignoring the myriad of ways creators from every corner of the world have adopted, adapted, and transformed the genre to serve their own artistic needs, and works like The Greatest Enemy are an important part of correcting that imbalance, bringing new perspectives to a genre that continues to grow and change as it reaches new audiences and new creators.
