I’m the HipHopera guy. I make HipHopera music. But I’m not the first person to use the word Hip-Hopera. • Back in 1994, rapper @dinovolume10hawkins released his debut album Hip-Hopera. In 1997, Jamaican dancehall artist @1unogeneral released a song called “Hip Hopera,” featuring orchestral and operatic elements with The Fugees. In 2001, @beyonce starred in Carmen: A Hip Hopera, a modern retelling of Bizet’s opera set to hip hop and R&B. • Then in 2018, I posted a video singing Figaro over the be