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Good post people think because whites are the biggest consumers of rap music that shyt means something. They are the vast majority of America’s population of course they’ll be the biggest consumer. But the fact is a lot of cacs don’t fukk with hip-hop or only fukk with it on a superficial level. If you check the Billboard 100 you’ll see a bunch of country acts that most black people have never heard of or you’ll see someone like Taylor Swift selling over 1M first week in the streaming era. That’s their mainstream culture.The amount of White people listening to rap consistently or as the only genre they prefer and the amount of White people living in this country are worlds apart in population. Certain influences won't catch on unless a large amount of White people indulged in the culture. The mainstream White culture ain't Hip Hop at all, they have their own celebs and athletes that the guys wanna be and the girls want to be with. So something like drill music is a guilty pleasure to a White guy, a genre of music they might have to log on Reddit to discuss with others because no one else in their community is interested in it like that.
Now how many Black people are in this country and how many of them listen to rap music on a daily or weekly basis as their #1 preference. How many young Black men only listen to rap?
Then we gotta break down the ages cuz your age plays a big part in being influenced by anything. A 50 year old middle class White dude in NY who has a Wu Tang playlist for the gym is much different than a 14 year old lower class Black kid from Seattle who knows all the gangs in the Raq due to his drill playlist for just general listening purposes.