Kpop has benefited off Black culture & Black music for so long and something about equating the stuggles kpop artists face in the american music industry to that of Black hiphop artists, when one heavily exploits the other, just doesn't sit right with me. No they are not the same
Kpop groups will always have korean award shows that will celebrate them but African-american artists have notoriously been snubbed in their own country for decades even though they originated so many music genres we enjoy now. It's just not comparable
And bighit is very wrong to conflate the two in an article tryna convince the masses why their boy group should win a grammy
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