Nashville Must Be Destroyed: Exhibit A

This thing has been burning up the country charts and FM radio like Thriller.

The rapping is just hokey...the singing is as hamfisted as the production. It's plastic...and where's the beat?

Still...that melody is strong. What's happened here? Nashville that's what.

Here's what it sounds like in the hands of the boys that wrote it...



We have to digress here for a second. The sound of the peach pit in Brantley Gilbert's mouth when he sings "Mud Tywews" is itself sweet music to my ears. We all have issues with Rs to a certain extent down here. The letter doesn't exist, is not acknowledged in Louisiana...but, Georgia, or Geowgia, has it's own particular problem with the letter. The relationship between rs and ws in the mouth of a Georgia Cracker is blush worthy and I love it.

How does the first version shoot up the charts while the original and obviously superior version remain completely unknown in certain circles...Nashville that's how.

If anybody's put off by the concept here...don't be. This is a place where you'll here T.I. blasting out of pickup trucks and see black men in Cowboy boots and hats. Darius Rucker is a 100% Southern product. And it's been pointed out more than once that what is referred to as Thug Culture is really just Red Neck Culture inherited from white Southerners...who inherited it from the North of England. That there's a whole lot more to Southern Culture than violence motivated by honor is a subject for later. When Jimmy Rodgers left this state to share what we would come to know as Country Music with the world...people who heard him thought he was black. He come out of the same fish-fry culture as the blues players. Leadbelly played Cowboy songs too. Ludicrous has rapped on this one at some shows with Jason Aldien.

I say all that to say the idea of Country-Rap is not really that odd...that's all.