I saw a post saying that Beavis and Butthead liking rap was odd for them.

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StrifeKnot1983@reddit

There is a narrative that some people subscribe to which is that only white people listen to rock music and only black people listen to rap, but that is completely false. If you were a white suburban teen in the '90s, chances are you listened to both rock and rap. In that regard, Beavis and Butt-head were/are an accurate depiction of youth culture in America.

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ILEAATD@reddit

I think it's more accurate to say hip hop was a secondary genre to rock music for youth at the time. Maybe even a third genre if you want to split the rock music of the time into alternative and heavy metal, sans artists that fell under both umbrellas.

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AwkwardTraffic@reddit

This lol. In the early to mid 90's rap, especially gangsta rap, was the biggest music genre and was huge. Beavis and Butt-Head were very accurate portrayals of white kids in the 90's when it comes to musical taste

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Secure-Village-1768@reddit

It was never huge outside f the US at that time.

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fearofcrowds@reddit

I remember reading that most rap was purchased by white people

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AwkwardTraffic@reddit

the stereotypical gangsta rap fan was a white suburban kid

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SayNo2Kryptonite@reddit

I remember the Paul Giamatti was doing interviews about the NWA movie he was in, and they asked him if he was familiar with 80s gangsta rap, and he said something like, "I was a white theater kid in Yale. We all listened to rap music."

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SayNo2Kryptonite@reddit

Especially Texas youth. Texas has its own very popular hip hop subculture.

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fearofcrowds@reddit

also dont forget the times they came together.. Judgment Night soundtrack, bands like RATM, Limp Bizkit, that JayZ/Linkin Park ep, numetal in general.

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JosephBlowsephThe3rd@reddit

B&B probably liked Body Count (Ice T's thrash metal band, infamous for their song "Cop Killer")

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lastcallpaul11@reddit

In the early/mid 90s, it was pretty rare for metal heads to like rap and vice versa. It changed in the late 90s and 2000s

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LLOGZIAD@reddit

They are 90s kids, not strictly metal heads. They shit on (to my dismay) pretty much ALL death metal bands as well as King Diamond, Grim Reaper and most 80s Metal. They liked hard rock, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Gwar, White Zombie, Pantera, Metallica, Anthrax Megadeth, Slayer, Crowbar and most alternative type metal but they seemed to love all of grunge and all of hip hop that was dominating MTV and the culture in which they and I grew up in. Any kind of "fuck the man!" "have sex!" and "break shit!" type music. That's what most 90s teens were like, we liked everything.

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InBruges3@reddit

Rap is my #1 genre by far. 90-95% what i listen to. But I do have a playlist consisting of mostly classic rock & a few other genres sprinkled in of a song or two.

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AdmiralTassles@reddit

Yeah I don't think it's odd at all. It makes perfect sense for them to love Gangster Rap especially with it's violent lyrics and overall IDGAF vibe. Just like with Thrash Metal or Punk Rock

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that80scourtney@reddit

I like both. Beavis and Butt-Head can too!

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fearofcrowds@reddit

They always seemed to like Snoop and Dre back in the day if i recall.

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TheMadMetalhead@reddit

The D R E a straight G

The D R E out on a robbin' spree

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TheMadMetalhead@reddit

The D R E a straight G

The D R E out on a robbin' spree

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uscarbinecal30m1@reddit

"A straight G. Out on a robbin' spree."

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AwkwardTraffic@reddit

And the Beastie Boys.

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fearofcrowds@reddit

true

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Plarocks@reddit

GET DOWN BEAVIS..

https://i.redd.it/8k3nb6mbrkag1.gif

“I AM getting down!”

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Doubleucommadj@reddit

And Coolio. I. Am. Coolio.

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CIarkNova@reddit

Don’t touch the 8 tracks..

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CJtheHaasman@reddit

I'm a Metalhead and a Hip Hop enthusiast, so that's not odd at all

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Nutshack_Queen357@reddit

Cow Tipping showed that they really like Fu Schnickens' music.

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Comfortable_Bird_340@reddit

If parents hate it…

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SomeDudeWithALaptop@reddit

If you can listen to metal, you can listen to anything.

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BMisterGenX@reddit

They like hard core rap they don't like poppy rap.
Their tastes are pretty diverse. They like The Bee Gees for example

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sonicboyfan12@reddit (OP)

They used to criticize pop music in the 90s

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new2bay@reddit

They really hated “college music,” too.

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Plarocks@reddit

“Are those the Black Crowes?”

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SayNo2Kryptonite@reddit

Mike Judge has VERY diverse taste in music. He had a two season shows about stories from musicians on the road. More than half were about black artists like George Clinton.

Also, he's said that the old black guys just hanging out and shooting the shit in Do The Right Thing (a very hip hop centered movie) were part of the inspiration for King of the Hill.

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DrDonTango@reddit

there is plenty of rap on the „do america“ soundtrack

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SayNo2Kryptonite@reddit

the LL Cool J video was hilarious with John Witherspoon at the end.

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TSG61373@reddit

They liked cool things. Scoring chicks. Pissing off authorities. Breaking things. Blowing up things. Monsters. Giant robots. Money. Hedonism. Etc.

I remember at first I thought it was weird that they worshipped Lil Wayne. Then I realized Why Wouldn’t They?

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DemotivatedTurtle@reddit

Modern Beavis is also a closet k-pop fan.

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AbsurdityIsReality@reddit

Mike Judge knew his stuff with music and it reflected. When he made Idiocracy the studio fought hard not to use those Geto Boyz songs and thankfully the focus groups all loved it.

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D0013ER@reddit

It's so coooold in the D.

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gildedappleofdiscord@reddit

how the fuck are we posed to keep peace?!

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Miles-Standoffish@reddit

I think that girl was in the Lion King.

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VigilantiHero@reddit

I like her better in this though

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Curlytoes18@reddit

White kids are the biggest consumers of rap - at least in the 90s they were

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RetroBerner@reddit

I remember that's how it was for a lot of kids in the 90s. My friend Pat and I were like THE metalheads of our school and everyone just assumed that's all we listened to.

When he bought his first truck with a system we would blast the shit out of anything with bass, dressed like hardcore metalheads, and people would give us weird looks too.

Fuck 'em, we did what we wanted and DMX was just as badass as Pantera to us.

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Pyotr-the-Great@reddit

In a way Beavis and Butthead are into metal less because they're just metalheads and more they're into anything that is cool and edgy.

Heck they might not even know about the different genres like punk or hardcore and just know if something sounds badass or not.

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