I don’t think listening to single genre is necessarily bad or anything. I think if you do predominantly listen to a single genre, it’s weird if you don’t have a diverse taste within it. Like all the same sub-genre or your top 25 albums are from like 7 total artists. If you’re gonna stick to a single genre, at least appreciate the whole spectrum

I respect a purist more than a dabbler

Cringe? No
It does say a little about you as a music listener though

Put it this way, Ill really value your opinion on stuff in that genre but stuff outside of it not really. Which is okay, people like what they like

No

People would only even say its cringe if it was all rap, which is dumb as f***

I see people post all rock top 10 albums a lot and nobody ever s***s on them

its fine, but whats not fine is being annoying about other ppls list who dont include that genre

also super annoying when hip hop only people enter none hip hop threads and say s*** like "cac music"

I like quite a lot of different genres of music, but ALL my top 10 are rap albums

People really talk out their ass sometimes. I saw a poster call shoegaze school shooter music on here lmaoo

I have a top 100 albums

almost 2/3 is hip hop, but the top 10 is like 80-90% hip hop depending on my mood

The Downward Spiral the only non hip hop album with a firm place in my top 10 tbh

Based

think i got like 30 to 40 hip hop albums in my top 200

idhave to check

I think many rap fans are justly disgusted by how racist and ageist criticisms of hip hop have been, so some overcompensate by throwing other genres under the bus

Don't be mad at the genres, be mad at the cornball journalists making nonexistent hierarchies

eh if you grew up on something it's gunna hold a special place to you. at the end of the day it doesn't matter what your taste is. probably 7 or 8/10 of my favorites are rap

Would the same people shame you if your top 10 was all rock 🤨

Probably not

Nine Inch Nails hard as f*** and I genuinely love The Downward Spiral but outside of that I'm not putting any rock in my top 10

one of the weirdest things ever is hip hop only ppl loving The Downward Spiral. Like its often the one "rock" (its industrial metal but for this convo lets just say rock") album hip hop only ppl like. Amazing album, but legit has nothing in common with hip hop

Nine Inch Nails and Burial the only non hip hop artists in my top 10

it’s cringe if you think it’s cringe

Demon Dayz and Hybrid Theory are still the most loved rock albums in hip hop tbh

I hate how ppl think diversity for the sake of it is good

like what u like bro

yeah those too, but those make f***ing sense

I love rock, but a lot of it grew off me. Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, and David Bowie genuinely are three of my favorite artists of all time though, like it's not one of those things where you force yourself to like it because you think it makes your taste "diverse"