So I’ve recently been exploring music genres I’m less familiar with and I’m finding I enjoy some rap and hip-hop music, but as with any other genre my taste is both eclectic and specific in a way where I usually like less than 50% of any given musician’s catalogue. So with a little help from wikipedia I’m going to list some things I’ve found I enjoy below, and hopefully you can give me some recs for artists to check out, or even specific songs that align with my taste.

• Golden age hip-hop
  Likes: (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) by The Beastie Boys, I Want You by LL Cool J
  Dislikes: One Shot At Love and I’m Bad by LL Cool J
• New jack swing
  Likes: My Prerogative by Bobby Brown
• Trap music: I HATE TRAP DRUMS
• Modern hip-hop:
  Likes: I like most of Lil Nas X’s stuff as long as it’s not using a trap beat. I adore Industry Baby and play it on loop a lot.
• Pop-rap:
  Likes: U Can’t Touch This by MC Hammer, Fantasy by Mariah Carey, Thrift Shop by Macklemore, Umbrella by Rihanna
  Dislikes: I’ve never heard anything by Nikki Minaj that I can even begin to stand
• Gangsta rap:
  Likes: Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio, No Church in the Wild by Kanye & Jay-Z, Lose Yourself and Not Afraid by Eminem, Say What You Want (All Day Every Day) by Wu-Tang Clan
  Dislikes: I have a lot of trouble with stuff that’s really deeply about committing crimes, at all about abusing women, or uses the N word to excess. I know as a white Latina I don’t have a right to say they can’t use the word in their music but I can only listen to it repeated so many times.
• Modern indie:
  Likes: 317.323 by Smile High and The Main Squeeze
• Reggae fusion:
  Likes: Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston

okay, so… i don’t quite know if this lines up with your taste in music, but if you want a new artist to get hooked on, i suggest iann dior.

his music has been with me through some tough times, and dior has a sixth sense for releasing fire albums when i go through the most terrible things you could imagine.
(he’s a great coping mechanism)

i’ve been with him since “nothings ever good enough” and i really love him. he made it to korea, with how popular he’s getting. i genuinely thought he was my little secret that i would gatekeep forever, but he deserves more than that.

songs to start with would be :
- let you
- 18
- runaway kid (if you like ballad-ish things)
- do it all
- memory lane
- saddest soundtrack
and
- valley of lies (if you have any curiosities about k-pop disclaimer – this is my own opinion, but i feel like bts is the worst group to start with in k-pop. start with stray kids or tomorrow x together. not bts. or blackpink. they both have a great discography, but they are the most stereotypical korean bands to start with, just don’t…

sorry i ranted..

SO!
check out iann dior, if you think he could be something for you!!

@kyukyukyujinyang Thank you, I’ll check him out!

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Uzi vert by BMV Young Face

Feel Me by BMV Young Face

DND by rema

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{ik i’m late, blame the ice age for it}
I’d say twenty one pilots is pretty good, especially the album Vessel or Blurryface.

Then there’s Imagine Dragons, pop-rock {you probably know them}
the album Night Visions by them is pretty good

Then there’s NF, he’s a rapper
CLOUDS (the mixtape) or HOPE {his recent release} are pretty good.

HOPE {i just had to do it} you have a great listening experience.

OP seems to have gone inactive, but I just wanted to correct something here for any readers.

Gangsta rap:
Likes: Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio, No Church in the Wild by Kanye & Jay-Z, Lose Yourself and Not Afraid by Eminem, Say What You Want (All Day Every Day) by Wu-Tang Clan

A majority of these songs, especially the ones I have bolded, are not gangsta rap. “Not Afraid,” for example, from Eminem’s 2010 album Recovery would be more aptly described as pop rap tbh. A bulk of Eminem’s discography (and that of the Wu-Tang Clan) would fall under the subgenre “hardcore rap,” but gangsta rap (while often overlapping with hardcore rap) is more specifically about the gangster lifestyle – some notable artists include Freddie Gibbs, Pusha T, Raekwon (of the Wu-Tang Clan), Boldy James, or even early Jay-Z like Reasonable Doubt.

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