Then you got the positive rappers: the Chance the Rappers and the J. They’re talking about drugs, smoking, sex. The only type of music you don’t have to be heart-driven nowadays is rap music. We’re two different artists weighed together.
When I heard “Old Town Road,” I looked up, and was looking for more records with that same feeling-to see what path it was on. What did you think of “Old Town Road” the first time you heard it? 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. Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs was released on Friday, October 11th, and includes “The Git Up” alongside other hybrid pop-country-rap numbers as “Georgia Power” and the ballad “Tn Whiskey.When I went to the country and I heard gunshots, no one ducked. Four dancers come out to join him onstage, and the five run through the lively dance routine that launched a thousand Tik Toks. Mid-song, his DJ transitions to the now-familiar looped pedal steel from “The Git Up,” causing the crowd to erupt in screams of appreciation. “Mama always told me that if you gotta make sure/Then you better make sure/That you make the best of your mistakes,” he sings, recalling some words of encouragement and advice from when he was growing up. Blanco Brown made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday, performing a medley of tunes from his new album Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs that included the hit “The Git Up.”īacked only by his DJ, Brown began the performance with “Funky Tonk,” a track from the new album that pits speedily picked acoustic guitar runs against Brown’s rapid-fire rhymes.
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