I ain't forgot about ya, appleberry. Naming White Pop artists is not the best example to use. Rap cannot be separated from Blackness.
Enough examples out there of White musicians in Pop (even Country but we'll keep it to Pop) using Rap and Black culture long enough in their career to get well-known or to be seen as being rebellious, and then do a complete 180 to distance themselves from it heavily.
Whereas Black musicians rarely get to label their music as just Pop and be played on Top 40 Radio stations in a local city/metro area.
Rap has a very close relationship with R&B. R&B also can't be separated from Blackness. Did you know that R&B artists rarely get airtime on the Top 40 either? Do you listen to R&B artists since you've made your claim of being against Rap?
Rap, and by extension R&B, has always been seen as a lesser genre despite Rap being international, because of it's Black American origins, and is so quick to be criticized and othered, no matter what the subject matter is.
The most anticipated American music awards show, The Grammys, still barely wants to acknowledge that Rap exists by putting it in a category that more or less says, you got a category, now stop complaining about not getting Best New Artist/Album/Song of the Year already.
As of this year, ever since the Grammys began, only 12 Black solo/duo artists have won Album of the Year. Out of those 12, only 2 Rap artists won AOTY: Lauryn Hill in 1999 and Outkast in 2004. When Rap/Hip-hop became a category, the first winners, The Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff, weren't even acknowledged as they should have been. That's how little Rap is respected as a genre.
And again by extension, R&B, as it took Beyoncé, in her 20+ year career, a highly talented singer and dancer with a stage presence that rivals Michael Jackson, singlehandedly changed the day albums primarily drop from Tuesday to Friday with her self-titled album, was nominated for AOTY FIVE times: in 2010 when "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" was so huge everybody was dancing to the choreography, in 2015 in which "I woke up like this" was one of the top pop culture phrases at that time, in 2017 Lemonade was such a powerful album of songs of various genres, the stages of grief and pain that specifically Black women feel as being the most unprotected group in the US, everybody was in Formation and was so critically acclaimed that Adele who won AOTY instead acknowledged how hard Beyoncé worked on it (and Adele has always been vocal about her deep respect of past Black American R&B artists being her influences) and 2023 with "Break My Soul" influenced by House music along with sampling New Orleans Bounce artist Big Freeda (House and Bounce also have Black American roots), to win AOTY for Cowboy Carter this year (the fact that she had such a shocked look on her face when her name was called, I bet she wasn't expecting to win AGAIN)
And Beyoncé has rapped here and there in her music and collabs with other Rap artists too. Again, Rap and R&B have a very close relationship.
So still dismissing an entire genre that was created and heavily tied to Black American culture because of xyz, is still based in prejudice and enforces that Black art and its contributions to American culture are still inferior.
Jazz and the Blues were considered to be "The Devil's Music", Country and Rock got so whitewashed that listening and liking either of those genres in the Black community got you called out as not being "Black enough" depsite us creating it. Funk and Disco effectively died by the early 1980s because of racist (homophobic too) White men who listened to Rock (the irony of it all), to the point that for DECADES the Disco era was one of the butts of cultural jokes.
Go online, go to wikipedia/etc, read about Rap subgenres, listen to some R&B, you'll find a song or two or an artist out there
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