American black songs
I never got the appeal. Is it because it sounds different and they speak fast so it's "cool"?
Half of the time I can't even understand the lingo, maybe a skill issue. And the other half is usually just porn fetish.
Though I just don't like how the लय in general is, iykwim.
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Songs / music has various elements - melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, lyrics, etc.
Different kinds of music genres from different cultures around the world use and emphasize these different elements to different extents.
There is not one kind of "American Black music". Even within Black culture in America, there are various kinds of musical genres that sound very different from one another - Blues, Jazz, Gospel, R&B, Rap & Hip-hop, because they all use these musical elements differently.
I believe you're referring to the Rap & Hip-hop genres, that play around more with lyrics and rhythms & beats, than rest of the elements.
Rap has evolved from the old traditions of African chants & beats, and also the call & response working songs sung by Black slave ancestors in America while working in the fields.
Rap originated in the 80s & 90s in New York, and was adapted as a medium to tell the stories of the life & struggles of modern Black people living in cities in America. The powerful lyrics and content resonated with the challenges of people living around the world, and so it quickly became a famous global phenomenon, with people around the world now telling their stories through the rap genre.
So that's why the focus is much more on a lots of words & lyrics, along with beats & rhythms, to tell detailed stories, instead of traditional melodic songs, which have comparatively sparse lyrics with few words.
Think of rap music as more of like the 'katha' tradition in India, where entire books are sung & said along with music.
Hope this makes a bit more clear now. If you want to explore more conventional melodic Black American music apart from Rap / Hip-hop, try listening to all the other Black genres that I had mentioned - Blues, Jazz, Gospel, R&B etc.
Happy listening! 😊
They are hard to get into esp for ppl who are used to listening to polarly opposite music like the indian classical genre or bollywood. I also initially didn't get why they were so popular, but then i was introduced to songs from Lil Nas X and slowly started liking them. They are basically beats + lyrics + solo instrumental melody. Unlike the Indian music where these are usually mixed together throughout the song. Just a different genre, some ppl like em some ppl don't and nothings wrong with either. "Cool" is subjective.