If that's the case, how come ringtone rap songs like Laffy Taffy, Stanky Legg, & My White Tee were popular in the USA during the early 2000s? Same for the entire reggaeton genre more recently. Also a lot of gospel, blues, disco, house, & funk music is repetitive. Traditional music from African countries is often based on the drum and/or rhythm. That's usually the point of it. James Brown has a lot of songs in the 1970s that just have a rhythmic groove and are often over 10 minutes long. Listen to
Paul Revere by the Beastie Boys, it's just a beat and turntable scratching. That came out almost 10 years before
This Time Around.