As a casual fan of Willy Nelson et al, that was really interesting to hear. I'd love to see the KB hate-on for Florida Georgia Line and all the other 'hick hop' out there.
I love absolutely everything about hick hop. Hick hop is cultural appropriation grown self-aware. It's the South and white trash recognizing that they have more in common with black ghetto culture than they do with Lynrd Skynrd. What I particularly love is that it's a bunch of striving rednecks willing to play up their redneck image the same as rappers played up their street image. Is there anything less country than professional golfing? Yet here we are: Let's not lose sight of the fact that this is a genre that doesn't exist without Kid Rock... and that it went bizarre and virulent from there. That the production value and design is basically '90s Dre with the budget cut to nothing warms the cockles of my heart: Note that I came at this from the bottom; I had two alcoholic contractors that didn't listen to "Florida Georgia Line" (more on that in a minute) but started me off in the absolute gutter: You ask Pandora to spin you up a playlist based on Mud Cricket? You're in the land of Mini-Thin: Eleven million views for confederate hockey masks. We've been here before tho: "Florida Georgia Line?" That's the Fugees of hick hop. Take the scary white trash, throw them on MTV's cribs and sell them to teenagers at Walmart. Capitalism at its finest. Helicopters, explosions and Lauren Hill crooning over Enya. There's a marvelous contradiction at the heart of hick hop: an adulation of black music and a hatred of black people. The tension is delicious and the irony is almost unbearable.
The Asylum Street Spankers recorded an original they called "Hick Hop" back in 1997. This version is from 2008 and is relevant because Wammo (the singer) says basically everything you said in your post, as an intro to song. https://asylumstreetspankers.bandcamp.com/track/hick-hop It's also just a funny track.
Yep. Exactly. Rolling Stone declares Patient Zero to be the Bellamy Brothers' "Country Rap" To place it amongst its contemporaries, 1986 in Rap was pretty much the beginning. It's fair to say that country and hip hop were always going to come together, it just took 30 years for the crackers to get over their loathing of the darkies.
There's a great opportunity for some agitprop there if there exists anyone who would be credible to that audience who would want to take it. I've seen several trucks with Redneck Revolt stickers around town. If it's stupid and it works...Hick hop is cultural appropriation grown self-aware. It's the South and white trash recognizing that they have more in common with black ghetto culture than they do with Lynrd Skynrd.
