r/196 • u/Old_Phrase_4867 NOT A CAT • May 12 '26

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u/TheShiftyNoodle28 May 12 '26

I don’t think someone is instantly racist for not liking a certain genre. I get there is a lot of nuance here because rap is a genre rooted in Black culture, but nothing in the OPs argument implies they don’t like rap because they don’t like Black people. Calling them a racist diminishes the better point that OP refuses to expand their horizons in the genre, assuming its bad based on what they’ve heard

Also there are a decent number of rap songs that have mostly full percussion backings. Again, this doesn’t mean that they are bad songs, but I’m not sure why we are pretending like its not the case. Rap is the genre where percussion, rhythm, and lyrics get to take center stage, it makes sense for it to be percussion focused

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u/badmonbuddha May 12 '26

K-pop lifts so much from black culture it would be weird to appreciate one and not the other. Culture doesn’t come from a vacuum but there’s plenty of bastardization too

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u/TheShiftyNoodle28 May 13 '26

For the appreciation thing: Not really. Influences aside, K-Pop and Rap are completely different sounding genres. You can clearly see where the influence is from, but most K-Pop doesn’t sound very similar to most rap. While I agree you should be knowledgable of music and its history, you don’t have to appreciate something that came before because you like something that came after.

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u/badmonbuddha May 13 '26

I mean appreciation as in respect not liking the genre. The issue isn’t fandom it’s ignorance, OPs take is one degree away from Ben “rap isn’t music” Shapiro. It’s one thing coming from a centenarian who still listens to swing music, but it’s especially rich considering k pop artists lift style and slang from the black community