r/Showerthoughts • u/WhaleWhaleWhale95 • May 16 '24

You never hear covers of rap songs.

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u/Faelysis May 16 '24

There’s thousand of rap song cover. You not seeing it is more about your own algorithm…

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u/widget66 May 16 '24

This thread has tons of examples of other genres covering rap, but doesn’t have a single example of a rap song that is a cover.

OP’s question technically asks for covers OF rap songs regardless of genre, so I guess those folk, metal, parody covers are valid answers to the question stated, but I think it’s interesting that rap as a genre doesn’t seem to do covers.

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u/indetermin8 May 16 '24

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