some say a man with a taste in music more abstract has still not been identified

Not if its rap or r&b

sidenote, god linkin park sucks lol sorry

linkin park terrible

No. You make the rules for what you like.

its all nostalgia

I do think as a hip hop listener u should try to educate yourself in all forms of music but no knock on u if u don't

i mean, sure. But god damn they unlistenable to me and i grew up when they were peaking

They had like two songs I enjoyed when I was growing up, neither of which I'm checking for now lol

I don't get some people's love for them.

My favorite Rock albums are from the classic Rock era.

Never was a Paramore fan like many rap fans and rappers claim to be. I don't know how Paramore crossed over to the Rap world but I've seen rap fans in my hood gassing them up and listening to a few of their songs.

they both have strong rap connections especially hybrid theory

my favorite "rock" albums legit have nothing to do with hip hop: Dirt and Rid of Me

why does it matter

I agree

Hip hop introduced me to a lot of classic electronic and soul music

This actually.

Yea, one should be diverse with their music selection, but there's so much music around you can afford to like one thing.

just recently started to get into Afrobeat aka Fela Kuti, which is something I could see appealing to rap heads

super hypnotic

excellent record.

I wouldn't say cringe. Theres nothing wrong with having your own tastes and fave genre

But when I see people who only seem to rate white artists and seem to be the type of people who would look down on rap then I do feel a type of way

Specifically music elitist who.love indie music but then the only pop stars they like are white annoy me a lot. Seeing people with these album if the year lists full of indie s*** but then pop stars like Taylor swift but they don't seem able to give hip hop a fair chance. I don't really care but it annoys me

Cringe? This is most people OP. It’s cringe to be pretentious about others music tastes.

Or the people go like overintellectualize artists of color

pitchfork is really really bad with this

Yes