Country-rap

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Country-rap is the addition of country music influences under hip hop music-style rapping. The style is known by several other names, such as "hick hop," "hill hop," "hip hopry," and "country hip hop". Cowboy Troy is the best-known performer known primarily as a country-rap artist.

1 History
2 Country Rap
3 Other examples of country-rap tracks by hip-hop artists include
4 Country Hip-Hop and Hill-Hop
5 Music sample
6 External links

[edit] History

The mixing of country and hip-hop genres has been done in such different ways over the last two decades that no coherent genre of its own has emerged to associate many groups with. Each time it has been tried the results have been very different, with different artists taking different elements from hip-hop and country with which to blend the two. The resulting sounds are so different that many of these artists have practically nothing in common. "Country Rock and Rap", a 1982 single by the Disco Four, is the first recognized blenind of the two genres. Later acts have associated a fusion of country and hip-hop with various sounds and terms.

[edit] Country Rap

Artists known primarily as rappers with noted country influences include Bubba Sparxxx (especially since his second album, Deliverance) and Buck 65, and the country-rap label can also include country-influenced rap rock artists such as Kid Rock and Everlast.

[edit] Other examples of country-rap tracks by hip-hop artists include

"Country Rock & Rap", 1982 single by rap group the Disco Four.
"Country Rap", 1987 single and album by the Bellamy Brothers.
'"Hillbilly Rap,'" 1996 album track by Neal McCoy. The lyrics to "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" (The Beverly Hillbillies theme song) performed in the style of Tone Loc.
"Wayfarin Stranger", 1997 track by Spearhead
"Country Rap Tune", 2000 single by Tow Down
"Ridin' On Chrome", 2003 single by Chance

[edit] Country Hip-Hop and Hill-Hop

Other Artists perform more fully integrated country hip-hop fusion, by including live country instrumentation (pedal steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, etc.) and country style singing with hip-hop beats and scratching. This style is more often referred to as Country Hip-Hop, and is most widely associated with Brooklyn based producer Rench and his live band B-Star (formerly known as Battlestar America, and before that simply as Battlestar). In 2005, Rench organized the First Ever Country Hip-Hop Festival featuring B-Star, Rench, UK country rapper Eminemmylou, and local country and hip-hop acts.

In 2003, Kentucky radio station WMMT, a part of nonprofit organization Appalshop, invited hip-hop producer Danja Mowf to experiment with sounds provided by bluegrass instrumentalist Dirk Powell. Broadcast on the radio show "Holler To The Hood", this collaboration was widely reported and fostered the term "hill-hop" to refer to the blending of bluegrass culture with hip-hop sounds. The term hill-hop was then adopted by local Kentucky group Kuntry Killaz, formed through hip-hop writing workshops sponsored by Appalshop.

[edit] Music sample

I Play Chicken With The Train (sample) (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- Short sample of I Play Chicken With The Train, by Cowboy Troy, ft. Big and Rich. This is one of the best-known singles to emerge from the country-rap style, and illustrates the combination of hip hop techniques with more country-associated instruments.
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[1] "Bootleg Dreams" by B-Star

[2] "Holla Atcha" by B-Star

[edit] External links

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