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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.
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 blend of the two genres. Later acts have associated a fusion of country and hip-hop with various sounds and terms.
Artists known primarily as rappers with noted country influences include Bubba Sparxxx (especially his second album, Deliverance) and Cadillac Zack and Nashville Chance, the country-rap label can also include country-influenced rap rock artists such as Kid Rock and Everlast.
- 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
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