(CNN) You know when that hotline bling, that can only mean one thing.

Since The New York Times published a critique this week claiming Drake pioneered rap-singing -- which it described as "singing and rapping all woven together into one holistic whole" -- people have been in their feelings and accusing the paper of being on its worst behavior.

Here's how it all went down:

for our end-of-decade package wrote about how Drake turned rapping into singing which no one thought would work and is now the utter and total norm https://t.co/tcANUeHcqh

The paper on Monday ran a piece by pop music critic Jon Caramanica headlined, "Rappers are singers now. Thank Drake," as part of its "Decade in Culture" series.

"He fundamentally rewrote the rules of entry for what it meant to be a rapper in the 2010s," the article's secondary headline about the Canadian rapper reads. "And it seems everyone followed."

Twitter reacted with some "Say what now?" at the thought that Drake had pioneered such a thing.

Thank you!! All this "Drake started the rap/sing combo" wave is nonsense https://t.co/LU4JMBzdNE — Léon (@LC_623) November 27, 2019

RIGHT. This a slap in the face to Lauryn Hill, Nelly, T-Pain, Andre 3000 (OutKast), Akon, Pharrell, Wyclef Jean, and many many more. — Sāvion For Congress 🌹 (@thesavionwright) November 26, 2019

You can't honestly be serious...like Ja didn't get ridiculed for singing on the hook, like Nelly didn't do a whole damn country song with Tim McGraw, like @phontigallo's whole career hasn't been about this or that Drake directly BIT Phonte's whole style...y'all need to research! — Low-Key (@kuhle83) November 26, 2019

Where was the crew love, they wondered, for artists like T-Pain, Lauryn Hill, André 3000, Kanye West, Wyclef Jean and CeeLo Green, who have been rap-singing for ages.

Not to mention Ja Rule, Nelly and Nate Dogg.

And, like, who hasn't gotten in one dance as 50 Cent sang-rapped, "Go shawty/It's ya birthday/We gonna party like it's ya birthday"?

To be fair Drake declared himself a rap-sing pioneer back in 2012 during an interview with The Jewish Chronicle.

"There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing," he said.

Still, the Twitter mentions on Caramanica's story wound up being a veritable who's who of folks who'd mastered the art of rap-singing.

Rapper Phonte, whom Drake has credited as one of his inspirations, even had something to say.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear. (c) https://t.co/vx00h53mhV — Phonte (@phontigallo) November 26, 2019

"The more you try to erase me," he tweeted, "the more that I appear"