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Hip hop has influenced Japanese culture to some degree. Samurai Champloo (released in 2004) is the most hip hop influenced anime I can think of, with Shing02 (born in 1975) being the Japanese rapper I’m most familiar with.
Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike (1999) had a hip hop influenced style.
Whether or not rap is “more popular” now can probably be answered by doing some research. https://www.billboard.com/charts/japan-hot-100/
Rap was extremely popular in Asian countries, especially Japan and South Korea, in the early 2000s. I don't know if it has remained as popular as back then though.
The first time I went to Japan was during this period and a lot of the bars were specifically hiring black men to stand outside and get people to come in.
American music gets around a lot so generally music genres that are popular in the US will spread all over to some degree. I think country is kind of the exception there.
I don't listen to pop music much but hip hop has been popular in Korea for a long time now. Same with neighboring East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. I guess they're just not nearly as popular overseas but they're mainstream enough locally you'll hear it wherever you go.
edit: Other than music, hip hop dance and fashion was pretty popular too at least when I was in high school.
you know I think I have seen it more often with ones out of korea or maybe china as I think the one im watching now is chinese and I think another one was the tower of the gods or something which I think is korean.
Talking about Korea specifically, the hip-hop scene has been growing in popularity for a while now. I first became aware of Korean hip-hop in the late 2000's with Epik High. In modern Kpop, one or more members specializing in rap is pretty standard with many songs featuring a rap segment.
I assume you are talking about Tower of God, a series that is adapting a Korean manhwa. Fittingly, several of the OPs and EDs are performed by a Kpop group called Stray Kids. The group has 3 rap-focused members that even perform as a trio under the name 3RACHA.
Creepy nuts is a Japanese duo if you’re talking about Mashle/Dan Da Dan.
not particularly. I jump around so much with series im not even sure which ones have had it outside of link click that I am currently watching.
A character in S2 of Squid Games considered himself a badass rapper.
ass rap is my least favorite type anyway.
Sir Mix-a-lot: ಠ_ಠ