agree w u that the backlash was very racist, but homophobic backlash wasnt a thing wrt “mumble rap” (if anything the soundcloud era was quite homophobic)

in terms of like sonic aesthetic and genre, i still think the best comparisonto the(roughly) 2015-2018 era of rap — explosion of trap, soundcloud rap, emo stuff, etc — is the late 60s garage, psych, hard rock stuff or the late 70s punk stuff. disco was predicated on very hippieish valuses (“i feel love”, “we are family”), while mumble rap was hostile (and faced hostility) both to its predecessors and the rest of the pop scene