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I feel like you hear the "anything but country and rap" line more often in a popular music context just because popular music is what most people are listening to. And maybe I'm wrong but I think it's largely an outdated mindset; I associate it very strongly with backlash by people whose tastes leaned more towards rock music and its derivatives against the decline of rock's pop relevance in the 2000s. That's when rap and hip-hop really started ascending into mainstream status and also you had that "pop country" sound going on. The popular conception of metal back then was nu-metal, and I don't think people are getting really granular about subgenres when they're saying this either.

Anyways this is all to say the music landscape has changed so that even the broad generalizations of genres people are making can be wildly different. There is a ton of variety even within mainstream popular rap, for example, the same is not true for country.