@coded_artist funny enough, sometimes it's the other way around too. Rock/metal by black dudes can kick ass. Of course, rock was largely started by Chuck Berry, a black man, but the genre has been primarily white dominated imo. But you've got bands like Living Colour that did some crazy stuff for their time.

Then there are people like Killswitch Engage's last lead singer (Howard Jones) and Animals As Leader's guitarist (Tosin Abasi) who are in leagues of their own.

The Japanese have extremely good rock and metal too, it has a really unique sound to it that you can always pinpoint as being Japanese.

Personally, I have always preferred white hip hop artists. I think it's mainly an aversion to gangsta rap which is what a lot of black artists lean into more, whereas white artists tend to kind of blend other genres into their hip hop that I'm more familiar with and enjoy more (like rock/emo/punk). Eminem used to be a favorite of mine but I kind of got tired of him. Most of what I listen to now is Blackbear and NF, a little bit of Hoodie Allen and Post Malone (not white but still). If you like hip hop at all I would highly recommend listening to NF, he's a Christian rapper and he always kills it.

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@Kagekokoro @coded_artist not a huge fan of the autotune singing personally :P

maximum the hormone is a classic: youtube.com/watch?v=60XZkQJxsp

and in the opposite direction, ichika nito is one of the best guitarists ever and i don't think that's even all that subjective to say: youtube.com/watch?v=DRfzittQ4W

@beardalaxy @coded_artist nito is definitely a master at his craft, no question nor doubt about it
maximum... i think it got hyped thanks to the appearance in anime, but besides that... not my cup of tea
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