I feel like all genres should be more like that. They just want to make sure it’s not a joke. Because one thing I’ve learned about Nashville is, if they love what you have to offer and it’s authentic, they’re going to support it full-heartedly. I would never blame music on a race thing. Nobody was holding me back: It wasn’t the right timing. You see how long it’s taken me to put this sound out? We’re talking a long time.ĭid you feel like you were held back in the country world because of your race? But at the end of the day, I’m going to continue to create my sound.” I started doing traditional country in 2008. I was like, “I don’t know if I could agree with that. It didn’t take someone outside of my ethnicity to tell me, “Hey, country music is this or that.” It was my closest friends, telling me, “This ain’t gonna work for you.” I was saying, “Look at Darius Rucker.” They said, “Well, Darius Rucker tricked everybody. Was that something that was on your mind when you decided to start making country music? There haven’t been many African-American country stars.
But if I delete those drums, you can’t take back the fact that it’s traditional country that lies at the surface. It ain’t what you preserved, it’s what you are-it’s the essence of your spirit. Snatching the butt of lightning bugs, making earrings. Country is walking barefoot, eating pickled pig feet, pig ears. I’m not trying to be country, I am country. They weren’t trying to identify as country-they were just being themselves. I guess you’d kind of say it was a sound developing in Atlanta from the Dungeon Family all the way up. Musically, do you think that combining country and rap is actually new, or is it an old phenomenon just now receiving mainstream attention? They actually built that bridge for me that I needed: that it’s one big world. Honeysuckles in the country, they bloomed just a little bit longer. Spending my summers in the country, then coming back to the projects in Atlanta, just bridged the gap. I could never get away from the storytelling. It changed my perspective and broadened my senses. The first song I heard and remember out there was Tim McGraw’s “Don’t Take the Girl.” When I heard it I was like, “Wow, this is a story-this is different from what I’m used to hearing.” Before that I was hearing Donny Hathaway, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye-I never heard that approach to music. I remember my aunty making her own seasoning, picking peaches off the trees, eating boiled peanuts. I would go to Butler, Georgia, in the country, and spend my summers there with my great aunt and my mother. You knew they were hunting in the country. BRB, just listening to 2002 country-dance crossover 'Cotton Eye Joe' by Rednex.When I went to the country and I heard gunshots, no one ducked. A feel good anthem bolstered by a viral video, truly we are living in a new age of (country) music. 'The Git Up' not only shares similar musical stylings as 'Old Town Road' - it's also catchy as hell, and its cumulative 80+ million views on YouTube and counting since its original release earlier this year are indicative of just that. Instead, millions of views/followers, and an appearance in Blanco Brown's new video for the single will have to do. If anything, he should have been given a medal for the mesmerising performance, captured brilliantly by a low camera angle.
#THE GITUP BLANCO BROWN FULL#
And the artist's new video has leant into its Tik Tok origins, included one of its most famous proponents, British teen Harvey Bass.īass rose to fame earlier in the year for his Tik Tok video showing him in full school uniform dancing along ( aka #thegitupchallenge) to 'The Git Up', alongside the caption - "I got suspended for this". The initial traction that 'Old Town Road' gained was partly due to its prevalence on musical app Tik Tok - a path shared by its country rap contemporary, Blanco Brown's 'The Git Up'.
Lil Nas X paved the way for a genre-bending country-led smash with his Nine Inch Nails-sampling record-breaking hit, 'Old Town Road', which has dominated US charts in 2019 - topping the Billboard Hot 100 for nineteen weeks.
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