If you compare the pace of soul, gogo, blues, rap, etc. to caribbean/Afro-Latino music and Afro beats it’s like night and day

Because negro spirituals came from the soul

Disco? That was the high BPM dance music you're comparing it to

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Don’t know if you can say that when black people made house

But I understand your point OP. I’d argue that North American music in general isn’t per se slow . I think sometimes our ears can trick us into thinking something is slower or faster depending on how you hear the different elements of a song meshing together.

We paid by baby and 42 dugg is 135BPM but sounds slower because it’s not a lot going on

Like if you hear b****es brew I wouldn’t describe that album as slow

House literally exists. Gospel exists. Jazz exists and does not have to be low BPM. It can literally be played/performed at bunch of tempos ranging from slow to fast. Not all rap is low BPM cities/states like Detroit, Florida, the Bay Area are known for fast paced tempos in their rap music. Ultimately it comes down to the genre. Black American music is not all low BPM. As time has gone on Blues has also increased in tempo. Even back in the day not all Blues music was low BPM, which would eventually lead to Black Americans developing rock and roll.

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tbf most of the time house will be under 128bpm and it takes its roots in disco which is traditionally 120bpm

Also it's a f*** ton of Caribbean music that is played at low tempos. Don't get my Trini ass started on the calypso, rocksteady, chuntney, dub, reggae, etc tracks with slow BPMs. Still makes for wonderful music.

Also OP you completely forgot the existence of funk music. That's normally not a slow BPM.

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I asked out of curiosity and black Americans are an ethnic group with a distinct musical tradition. How is this question insinuating anything racist

Sounds like you just learned what a BPM is lol

Low/high BPM is not common in any specific genre

Songs can have a high bpm and still sound "slow"

140 bpm can sound like 70 bpm cause 70 bpm is "Half time"
It's based of how it's made

our lives so fast we need something to slow it down

but even “low” bpm music can sound fast idk if you talking about the right thing most people complain about 808s being used so much

That kinda makes black people sound monolithic lol

It's not a racist question, but it is very ignorant as there's such a wide and rich history of Black music and Black musicians who have made contributions to American music in general to write off Black music as being "slow tempo" or "low BPM".

Without these contributions/contributors, popular American genres that are normally described as having fast tempos like metal, rock, punk, and pop in general probably wouldn't exist.

why be so quick to say this and don’t realize it undermines us when y’all use it half the time

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