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Sep 17, 2021 · Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Sep 17, 2021 • 3 min read. The fusion of hip-hop and country music has existed in some form since the 1980s.
Apr 17, 2019 · From “Country Rap” Little surprise that the first time country music directly nodded at hip-hop was with a lightly arched eyebrow.
Jun 27, 2014 · The country-rap aesthetic crystallized once a network of music makers from Georgia — home to the Southern rap capital of Atlanta — made their presence felt in Nashville. Soon,...
- "Blowfly's Rap," Blowfly
- "Country Rap," Bellamy Brothers
- "Wild Wild West," Kool Moe Dee
- "Buttermilk Biscuits
- "By The Time I Get to Arizona," Public Enemy
- "Hay," Crucial Conflict
- "How Do I Get Here," Deana Carter
- "Belts to Match," UGK, Smitty and Sonji
- "Back on The Road," Lil' Black
- "Deliverance," Bubba Sparxxx
For this hardly safe-for-work tale of a showdown at a local honky tonk, Clarence "Blowfly" Reid adopted the talk-singing of C.W. McCall and other products of country music's CB radio craze.
The Bellamy Brothers' shot at popularizing the term country-rap comes across as sincerely laughing with, not at, rural folks beholden to the past and big city creatives with ideas that'd reshape popular culture to come.
Early rappers embraced the outlaw imagery commonly associated with country music, as heard on such crucial tracks as Kurtis Blow's "Way Out West" and this minor crossover hit that's best known now for being sampled in the 1999 Will Smith song of the same title.
"Baby Got Back" rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot parodied vocal twang with this bizarre opening track from 1988's Swassand the similar "Square Dance Rap." Both are examples of how country and rap have long allowed for good-natured (if not slightly obnoxious) humor about overlapping topics.
In a less obvious case of a rap group paying homage to country music, Public Enemy hat-tipped Glen Campbell's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" with its takedown of Arizona Governor Evan Mecham for his 1987 cancellation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Country living themes abounded in rap long before hip-hop beats signaled 21st century changes in Nashville. For example, Crucial Conflict cleverly used farm analogies in this classic about getting high.
The least likely piece of the country-rap puzzle fits for a slightly subtle yet very important reason. "'How Do I Get There' was the first record on country radio to ever have a drum loop in it and that was something I just fought to be the case, not to be the first on country radio, but it had to be on the album," Deana Carter told Sounds Like Nas...
As UGK (Underground Kingz), Texans Pimp C and Bun B paved the way for Big K.R.I.T. and others unashamed of their redneck roots. In "Belts to Match" and "Let Me See It," the duo proudly refers to its "slang and twang" formula as country-rap.
Seventeen years before Billy Ray Cyrus embraced Lil Nas X, Willie Nelson spit rhymes inspired by "On the Road Again" with Lil' Black. It's way more surreal than any of Nelson's musical run-ins with Snoop Dogg.
Prior to the rise so-called "bro-country," Bubba Sparxxx bridged Southern rap and contemporary twang. For a taste of Sparxxx's contribution to hick-hop, spin this undeniably catchy banger or Colt Ford and Danny Boone collaboration "Country Folks."
A derivative of black musicianship in the antebellum South, country music’s ties to racism and Confederacy are reflected in the genre’s modern-day divide. Bubba Sparxxx came onto the scene ...
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Apr 11, 2019 · And here’s the thing: It started in Texas. But what are we talking about when we say “country rap”? We’re talking about songs that feel like country rap tunes.
Jan 24, 2018 · By David Peisner. January 24, 2018. At Georgia's Lactember Fest, the world's biggest celebration of country rap, we explore a scene full of big dreams and complicated politics. Raymond McCrea...
