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K-Pop 19h
I’m not even black but anyone who’s barely dipped their toe into 90s/00s RNB and has only heard the hits understands exactly what people mean when they say kpop comes from AA culture
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Anonymous 16h

*hip hop and RNB

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Anonymous 8h

Today I saw a TikTok that said „what would kpop be without black music?“ and the only correct answer is that it literally would not exist

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8h

Comment were ragebaiting me though cause why were certain people unironically saying that it would sound like NewJeans…

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8h

People like to talk about how SM created kpop as it is today but he literally talked about seeing Michael Jackson everywhere when he lived in LA and so he created SM wanted to make a Korean version of that

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8h

and no shade to any member of NewJeans themselves I love them but let’s not act like their producers didn’t get their sound from PinkPanthress and the already popularized hyperpop scene- it just wasn’t seen in a setting like kpop yet

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