NASHVILLE FEUDING OVER COWBOY RAP
NASHVILLE FEUDING OVER COWBOY RAP
NASHVILLE (Wireless Flash) Nashville country stars are feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys over a new genre of music: Cowboy Rap. Tracy Byrd and Mark Chesnutt have just released a ditty called A Good Way To Get On My Bad Side, which includes the line, There ought to be a law against cowboy rap. The line is ticking off cowboy rapper Gangsta Tea of the Southern Rap Commission, who says country musicians have been borrowing from blues and jazz music since Hank Williams. He believes Byrd and Chesnutt are ticked off by the new cowboy rap trend because it proves theyre dinosaurs. Gangsta Tea claims real cowboys dont have any problem with rap. In fact, he knows lots of cowboys who keep Snoop Dogg CDs in their pick-up trucks. The Southern Rap Commissions debut CD, Banned From Nashville, will be released July 31.
Wed 07-25-01