Should there be rap in country?

[jacjas_7]

A decent question to ask. I mean we have rap in rock, why not country. I only found out recently that there is a country singer who only raps country songs. I have failed to hear the album, because I am afraid it will be terrible. I mean Big & Rich touched on it some in the first album with Cowboy Troy and Toby Keith has even tried to be a little rapish in some of his songs. Oh, and I cannot forget Kid Rock, but he is over all the map.

I got nothing against rap. I like it now and then, but it just seems another step away from real country music.:)

[Cacteur]

Lets not forget jacjas, that music genres are marketing tools for record companies, and have very little to do with the creative effort called "music".

Nashville seems to have had the biggest issue with this, and IMHO comes from their obsession with trying to control what is and what isn't country, and is something that goes way back. To me, Nashville is an evil empire that is only interested in making money, and is responsible for much of country music's bad name. Rehashing tried and tested formulas until they have thrashed them to death, and actively discouraging any new movement that may appear.

From Hank Williams, through the honkytonk rebels, to Johnny, Waylon and Willie and their Outlaw era, to the modern days of S t e v e Earle, Dwight Yoakam and the Southern Rock sounds of Georgia Satellites and Supersuckers, and the Alt Country music scene, started by Gram Parsons and the Byrds, and still going strong with folks like Gillian Welch, the Wacos and Devil In A Woodpile.

Nashville has written them all off, and been wrong, everytime, and for the most part, the music that has upset them most is more country than Nashvilles pop trash.

As for Hiphop country, Big and Rich touched on it with Cowboy Troy because Cowboy Troy is Hiphop Country. Check out his album, Black In The Saddle which I posted a while back..

http://albumwash.com/forum/showthread.php t=17124&highlight=Cowboy+Troy

"Hey all you hick chicks, dixie divas, and you southern belles, all you redneck, women let me hear you yell!!!" Yeah it's rock, and hiphop, and is definitely country man, wiv out a doubt. I'm riiiight into it bro! :thumbsup: http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq122/Cacteur/Smilies/roker011.gif

[dm08262000]

check out colt ford's music doesn't get more country and rap!!

[Kenshi]

i'd say, why not? i dont think there is any two genres that should never be mixed together. the only genre i would say is pop, i dont think any genre would benefit by mixing with pop except by gaining sales.

[TheHitMan]

It doesn't match like rap and rock does.

I mean, sometimes it can go well. But its only gonna happen if rappers start singer or singers start rapping

[jacjas_7]

Eminem could go country and put out a country/rap album. Then he'd have a whole new area to poke fun at. I would buy it. Then you could have an episode of Crossroads with Eminem and Garth Brooks!!!

[Cacteur]

It doesn't match like rap and rock does.

I mean, sometimes it can go well. But its only gonna happen if rappers start singer or singers start rapping

Check out the Cowboy Troy link I've posted above. G'wan man. It's free!

'Rap/Hiphop' is tightly linked to 'R&B and Soul', and 'Rock' is a merging of 'R&B' and 'Country', so I don't see the problem at all. :)


check out colt ford's music doesn't get more country and rap!!

Cheers mate. :thumbsup: Sounds like me. On ya!

[TheHitMan]

Rock = R&B + Country


Seriously?????????

[Cacteur]

Rock = R&B + Country


Seriously?????????

Deadly. Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Rolling Stones? :naughty1: Why? Where did you think it came from?

[jeanettek]

Check out Jamey Johnson - High Cost of Living. It's seems like a country rap to me.

[Rudolf]

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[bpranke]

NO WAY. I listened to country when I was a kid now I listen to rap but country should stay country I like it that way at least.