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Alright - So I have lately run into this basic theme on Youtube - Hip hoppers reacting to country music, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Among the best, of course, are folks reacting to Chris Stapleton's 'Tennessee Whiskey"... Now granted, Stapleton's blues-y style is a pretty good candidate to cross over, but he is self-declared Country, and likely well inside the Outlaw Country genre.
My take-away observations:
Folks tend to be surprised to truly find Country music to their liking, and tend to be surprised at the very wide boundaries (many sub-genres they were wholly unaware of)
Folks tend to declare they they love the storytelling aspect of country music, and the clean lyrics. They seriously LOVE the guitar riffs and bridges, which I take it are missing from the hip hop genre, and feel a strong pull toward country being a lot like old school R&B.
A surprising majority seem to say they remember this kind of music and associate clearly with country gospel 'like their mamma used to play'.
A look at country music and it seems, we ain't all that far apart after all...
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