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Why do kids nowadays are so into black music? Like all of them "rap" and even the girls.

(I hope that's the right term)

And also dress like rappers and think that they're the shit for wearing jordans.

I don't like rap but I wouldn't use the label "black music" because some absolutely amazing music was made by black people like blues and jazz, so many artists it would be impossible to name them all like Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry , Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone and the list is almost infinite but rap, in my perspective, is mostly crap with bad music, bad lyrics and bad values. the clothing style also is quite ridiculous: pants hanging down to the knees and wearing gym clothing with jewelry, it just looks silly.

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

Kids in my generation were heavily into rap and r&b, so I don't think it's a modern phenomena. Even in the early 90s, the overwhelming majority of hip-hop consumption were from white suburban males. It goes back a while, and you might even look at the popularity of jazz and disco music as the predecessor to all that.

But as to a reason why, I don't know, but I have a theory. Just like science fiction and fantasy and comic-book stories appeal to younger audiences, I think black music can play a similar role where it captures foreign environments, cultures, and norms and makes it accessible through story-telling. It's the appeal of the distinct and different that fascinates them.

There's also subversive elements in rap music that appeal to teenage rebellion much in the way that punk and rock music used to back in the day, but rap has grown far more mainstream today than in years past and is the genre du jour for this era.