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I have never met someone who has a specific hatred of rap music that wasn't using it as a proxy to signal racial hatred.
Like the guy who answers "anything but rap" when asked what kind of music they like. You know exactly what they mean to say...
I know what you mean, but you don't have to like rap. There are people who just genuinely don't enjoy it.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about people who single rap out or make it the butt of a tasteless joke.
If someone feels the need to joke that everyone who likes or makes rap should be executed, you really just need to take a look at the demographics that listen to or create rap music, and you get a distinct picture of what they don't like about the rap community (spoiler: it isn't the music).
And if you ask someone what they like to listen to, and they don't give a real answer and single out rap as the only genre they dislike, they're not actually telling you what they like or don't like, they're just taking a jab at part of Black culture for the sake of signalling their disapproval.
If you don't like rap music aesthetically, it's pretty easy to convey that without sounding like a racist by dismissing the entire genre as if the world would be a better place without it, because people notice when someone focuses their vitriol specifically at PoC cultural strongholds.
I personally don't listen to much rap, and don't consider it my style, but I'm sure has hell not going to insult it or the people who enjoy it, because I respect people's aesthetic and cultural differences and don't reflexive hate Blackness.
"Specific hatred" does not equal "don't like".
Parents just don't understand
Eh, rap is so different from other genres imo, that it can kind of make sense, especially if their only exposure to rap is what hits charts.
The word “urban” comes to mind.