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Rap Has the Most Genres

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There are so many genres... RYM's genre tree page: https://rateyourmusic.com/genres/ =================================== Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theneedledrop Follow your melon: Twitter: https://twitter.com/theneedledrop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afantano Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/theneedledrop TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ theneedletok

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@bimgus667210 months ago It' s a good thing there' s only one genre that matters: the good people over at the ridge. 2256
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@GibusWearingMann10 months ago Number of subgenres is in my opinion an indication of how geeky the fanbase is, which is why electronic music wins easily. 1234
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@emomu10 months ago Love how there are over a thousand genres lumped into the " regional music" category lmao. 396
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@Shreks_brother10 months ago Doesn' t music have the most genres? 2655
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@hmmmpotato10 months ago With this video we conclude: rap is, in fact, music. 202
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@Aadrian710 months ago As a recent member and current addict of rym, in my opinion the more subgenres the better. That way, if you' re looking for a hyper-specific vibe, instrument or region, you won' t be disappointed. 588
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@icanusernamebetterthanyou385310 months ago If i were to guess, i' d say the relative lack of categorisation within jazz is more a reflection of attitude. Jazz seems to be a genre based around also, fantastic shirt. ...Expand 33
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@AdrianBrth10 months ago Hip hop having 82 genres is quite impressive, but over 200 genres under the umbrella term acoustic rock is another dimension. Truth is, people never be . ...Expand 82
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@littyagain940210 months ago Its so crazy lookin at the evolution if hiphop, imagine showing someone from the 80s that loves a tribe called quest a playboi carti song. 24
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@Suspendedsamuel10 months ago Cant believe maga rap isnt included as a hip hop subgenre im incredibly disappointed. 26
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@connortiernan254810 months ago Its a good thing theres only one genre that matters: the friends we made along the way. 38
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@aboutlilychouchou10 months ago As a music enjoyer, i like genres and subgenres, but as an autist i love genres and subgenres. 344
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@Dungawya10 months ago Music has the most sub genres by a mile. 38
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@mrsnowyshaw224910 months ago Fantano should make more videos about rym, they' re always fun to watch. 81
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@PearlCityBeats10 months ago The person who made the original post that rap has the most genres must be feeling like a million bucks to be able to get melon to make a dedicated video. Well done. 129
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@dennis3dc10 months ago Im endlessly fascinated with musical genres & sub genres. 16
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@xnlac10 months ago The evolution of hip-hop is what i love the most about it. 44
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@wehavemetbefore10 months ago As a hardcoremusic enjoyer and producer myself, i can proudly tell even if we technically don' t have the most subgenres, we have the most absurd genre names you can imagine like bubblegum bass and future house.
and if you thought it' s all genz and internet shit, people in the 80~90s actually called some genres freestyle hardcore, bleep house or speed garage. Hell, even drum and bass is a funny name, so it' s some descendent thing that runs in the blood i guess
a funny example i' d like to mention is that aphex twin in 1997 didn' t like the namedance music' because it feels too snobbish so he instead used the namelike wtf richard. ...Expand 72
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@kopytko955810 months ago Edm belongs under both dance and electronic umbrella so numbers of edm subgenres count for both of them. 39
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@MNTNPG10 months ago Ive always thought that the people who say things like rap is the most diverse genre dont really know much about other genres. Theres definitely way more diversity inmusic. 223
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@harleykf110 months ago I wonder if the number of subgenres on rym reflects the number of active listeners. I' ve noticed there aren' t as many songs from say the 40s or . ...Expand 20
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@yesguy24510 months ago Being a person who used to only listen to rap, people who only listen to rap think it' s the only popular genre that anyone cares about. 5
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@AikiraBeats10 months ago I didn' t realize how big classical and folk music is until i saw all of those subgenres. I have some records to discover cause wow that' s a lot. 42
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@indigojaime797010 months ago joo gilberto and novos baianos appearing for less than 1 second in a melon video? i see that as a win 4
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@Myiic10 months ago I didn' t have to think for a second before the wordsdeath metal" came into my head and i instantly ignored this argument. 40
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@ff-qf1th10 months ago You could also argue that the culture surrounding different genres of music will influence the degrere to which said genre' s influences are categorised . ...Expand 2
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@kelseytrombley121110 months ago As a fan of folk music i like the sub genres because often it can be hard to find music that i like if im just looking under the general genre. An issue w . ...Expand 3
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@sallowhuw352010 months ago Even though it doesn' t have a lot or sub genres i still love cavemen music. 11
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@radical690510 months ago Folk with that many makes so much sense as does anthony' s initial explanation that age of the umbrella genre will likely decide how many offshoots it has. 3
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@JoshuaJesterRichards10 months ago If you think about it, nightcore is the biggest genre. You just slightly speed up any/every song, and boom, you have nightcore. 34
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@Vlairity10 months ago Brad taste in music is shaking right now. 7
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@kaiden5220110 months ago Pretty cool to see injury reserves by the time i get to pheonix as the header for the experimental section. Shoutout parker and nathaniel, rip steppa j groggs, injury reserve forever. 2
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@hadrienhartgers349810 months ago One thing that i find missing in this video is the question of how relevant it is to sort genres out. In hip hop culture it' s clearly not a thing when . ...Expand 73
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@TheOnlyBasketCase10 months ago Ok but how many subgenres does making thicc vegan smoothie videos have? 13
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@shocksystem867510 months ago Rock and electronic music have more subgenres than rap all the way. 13
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@jonathansaraco10 months ago The number of genres says more about the people that make and listen to the music than the music itself in my opinion. I can' t honestly believe that . ...Expand 3
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@rodvik10 months ago I came in skeptical i came out with something to think about and some new music to look into. Good video. 1
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@Temporal7Lizardo10 months ago Meanwhile in dance music we get as specific as house > hard house > hardstyle > rawstyle, and expect everyone else to keep up. 2
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@leonpaul619810 months ago Love how, for electronic dance music, he lists 2 genres that exactly 4 people in this world listen to, and then drum and bass as if it were equally as obscure. 94
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@MothsInALampshade10 months ago I' ve sort of always assumeas a descriptor referred to how the music progresses, and not that it is the most progressive. Like how it may have multiple movements, key changes, mixed meter, diverse time signatures. Progressive as in it' s always changing. I could be wrong though. ...Expand 33
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@andrewnotgonnatellya701910 months ago Genres are like money: they exist when we believe in them. 7
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@bearowl410110 months ago I also wonder if the number of subgenres on a given genre on rym is also a reflection on the rym userbase. I wonder if there' s less user interest in . ...Expand 5
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@alexanderjunge397610 months ago Genres are cool and help you find new music / what youre looking for, but when im listening to albums and artists i like - i care about so many other things in the music. 2
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@keanuismyfather747710 months ago As a metalhead who is also a hip hop enthusiast i just laugh.
sri lankan neoclassical blackened folk slamming brutal technical funeral death doom metal will never be topped. 2
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@okaight724810 months ago We need laws in the constitution regarding how many moregenres that aren' t related to hardcore are allowed. 3
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@lukashislop589010 months ago Genres are simply a categorical feature. Artists dont make music to fulfill whatever sounds accompany the genre theyre going to end up in. I think mov in the same way movements end, genres kind of do as well. Like for instance, there can no longer be anymore true krautrock. ...Expand
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@haydenqrc10 months ago People who argue over the bpms of d&b, jungle, breakbeat, and breakcore to decide what genre a song is while they all come to completely different . ...Expand 2
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@yourneighbourr10 months ago I wish he talked about the regional music section with 10+ genres. 3
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@sclitchmusic10 months ago Every genre of electronic has subgenres and every subgenre has subgenres and etc. Its a huge mess. 5
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@thescoobymike9 months ago I think some scenes just like coming up with new names for things more whereas others are fine with keeping the same label on their music no matter how different it is.
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@thelastchannelonyoutube10 months ago Everyone says their genre is the most diverse and they all have equal credibility to make those claims (which is not at all) 5
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@bodietoman515410 months ago Before watching, i think that rock has the most genres, or pop maybe. 5
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@btarczy506710 months ago Genre is one of those things that one can get very specific about and discuss for hours which band falls into that or the other but then again you just can not give a shit about it either. 1
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@collinshull989810 months ago I was also sure that metal was the most preposterously subgenre' d genre, then i lived with some edm heads and learned i was wrong. 1
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@Izanami1710 months ago Anthony should give us an icp tier list i know he likes icp so yeah please give that to us. 3
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@5kinspace64610 months ago For whatever reason this video reminds me a lot of the older question of the week videos that were on theneedledrop channel.
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@andrei11dr10 months ago When it comes to the whole genre thing not being perfect my mind always goes to industrial music
as soon as i hear it i can instantly recognize . ...Expand 4
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@Yahntia10 months ago Only ishkur' s guide to electronic music is authoritative. 3
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@irubanomlas10 months ago Why are we getting rap and hip hop twisted? Its like calling singing and pop the same thing. 6
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@nofapobama10 months ago The fact that Amapiano is not in the rateyourmusic screenshot of subgenres @ tells me that list is cap 1
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@jamosbigjaw179110 months ago Ambience has the most sub genres. The first ever music was influence by wind or birds chirping which is technically ambience. 4
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@nbtn10 months ago Cant believe fantano skipped over the newly created and incredibly intellectual rym genre of shitgaze. 4
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@user-is3mb5nb3g10 months ago A bit tangential, but i' ve been playing iidx for a while now, and if you' ve ever played the game you know that in the song select layout the songs . ...Expand 4
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@Kino_the_Crusty9 months ago With these numbers there' s alot to consider repeats occur all the time
rock music lists punk rock 2x, and thus all their subgenres are counted because they fit under 2 trees, punk, and rock.
folk and edm is probs the most common case of stuff like this. ...Expand
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@dumpstertrash42010 months ago That' s why i only stick to two genres, country and western. 1
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@zakk2199 months ago I would say that i don' t care much about subgenres but the more i think about it, some of my tastes are hyper-specific and it definitely helps to be . ...Expand
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@haydinwebkinz34499 months ago Happy to see people still remember crabcore 1
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@magicwindow668210 months ago That' s such a weird take about rap having the most genres because it seems like people very rarely talk about hip hop that way compared to other genres. 3
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@deletetrmnl10 months ago Any genre can mix with another, so i think no genre has either more or less subgenres. 1
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@ktudl10 months ago No it' s definitely does have the most sub genres when considering all the niche shit like maple sigilkore and all the others thousands. 1
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@A.P.L.O.10 months ago Bro feels so good that melon made a video off his tweet. 1
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@tazmon12210 months ago There are only 2 reasons why genres are important: 1) so record stores can have a clean organization system for costumers who don' t have all day to sure genre gatekeeping is fun and stupid, but it' s meaningless. Music is music. You either like something or you don' t. ...Expand 2
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@Kino_the_Crusty9 months ago There' s also the fact that anything listed aswithin rym system is that there just aren' t enough to categorize it as a
so everything underrock" might eend up in 30 different genres, based solely on whether or not that specific style catches a trend enough to fit a name to.
death grips is experimental hip hop, but one day their influence will be widespread enough that they are no longerjust normal, we just don' t have a name yet is all. ...Expand
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@redsus483910 months ago Hip hop has an insane amount of sub-genres; experimental hip hop, rap metal, trap, pop rap
but then again, theres depressive suicidal black metal and neoclassical darkwave, so. 134
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@Brainfly-6 months ago I appreciate subgenres for the simple fact that if you enjoy a certain sound, it' s a lot easier to find more of it. However, in electronic, it felt immediatelya new subgenre. There' s like a billion _step and __house genres out there lol. ...Expand
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@elijahfordsidioticvarietys87708 months ago Absolutely ridiculous. Rock has so many genres, even its genres have genres. Look how many subgenres there are of heavy metal, which is literally a subgenre of rock. 2
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@nameisamine10 months ago I instantly assumed dance music had the most sub genres. The subgenres in house alone is crazy. 1
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@inigo13710 months ago You could literally just pick post punk rock and make it a dozen different genres if you wanted to
it' s pure semantics. 2
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@samgould856710 months ago The more specific the subgenre, the more parameters the music needs to stay within. I think its liberating for most people (artists and listeners) to n . ...Expand
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@twighailey196710 months ago This is a good guide on how to find new genres of music.
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@nolanbarth921110 months ago I did a research paper about hyper specific sub genres not too long ago.
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@cragnog10 months ago I reckon there aren' t such clear lines between some cases of ' regional classical music' and ' folk music' the lines between given genres and sub-genres is a great subject for some deep conversation.
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@marcocardia396010 months ago If we keep it fun, genre is a fun game, that' s just it. 1
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@Mehhlone10 months ago At least in the last decade, rap has had the most evolution it ever had. 76
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@CodexBS10 months ago Lmfao kawaii future bass. This can only describe one artist, and thats probably moe shop. 1
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@TheTrueFool10 months ago Subgenredrive me insane because it just opens up the floodgates for pendants on the internet to argue andpeople. 1
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@rascaltuff9 months ago large and in charge said in the most fantano way possible
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@elliotbaker541610 months ago I find the difference between super broad and super niche genres to be very funny. Like how there can be something called song in the whole genre, then you also have alternative which just means literally anything thats not traditional rock, hip hop, or country. ...Expand
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@JasonParmenter10 months ago The genre name i hate the most is " world music" like. What. Apparently it was workshopped by the industry which is just urgh too. 2
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@IOxyrinchus10 months ago Rap has the most genres
heavy metal knows your current location. 10
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@GambitRaps10 months ago Can we get a tier list of every sub genre of all music? 1
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@t.c.bramblett61710 months ago Everything' s just one genre, man, it' s all just like, music, man, i listen to the genrewhich includes everything from symphonies to women beating clothes with sticks in the waters in india. It' s all one thing man. But my favorite genre isat the moment. ...Expand 1
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@ihavebraindamage444510 months ago Where can i find that shirt i just tried looking it up and found nothing. 1
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@centurionmusic118 months ago Rap has the most sub-genres
laughs in metal. 1
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@zebgf26110 months ago Rym just added ' asian rock' as a subgenre of pluggnb. Alsothey' re going wild over there. 2