I recently saw someone comment on a video of the new “skate.” game that the soundtrack should have more punk or punk-inspired tracks since punk has always kinda been the sound of skateboarding. Someone immediately responded with “weird racism but okay” followed by how hip hop is huge in skating too and to say punk is more connected to it was racist. One, yeah hip hop is part of the scene but skating has an entire sub-genre of punk dedicated to it (skate-punk), and it’s just more connected to it.
Ten original comment never said other genres don’t belong in the game mind you, it was just talking about how the original 4 skate. games had more punk on the soundtrack, but even they had some hip hop and other genre stuff. (Yeah skate-punk and “pop-punk” was more common in late 2000s but the games always had music going from then-current day back to the 70s or so)