The sound of an 808 beat courses through the speakers as a fiddle can be heard strumming along with an acoustic guitar while the bass lays down a tempo. As the instrumental goes on a heavily accented voice rings on top of the song in a syncopated fashion. I immediately recognize it to be Keep it Redneck by The Lacs. This genre of music is not typically played on the radio but it contains a huge base of underground fans. It combined two genres creating a hybrid of music most would assume never to cross paths. In the early 2000s is when this form of music began to take the world by storm. Artists such as Bubba Sparxxx, Cowboy Troy, Kid Rock, and Big & Rich pioneered the way for this genre to begin to rise from the question of possibility
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Although these instruments are in the hybrid they tend to be heavily digitalized while also bringing cliche lyrics of Chevy pickup trucks and beer bottles. Not all artists use these cliche lyrics. Yelawolf who talks about his life growing up pretty often in his songs like “Whiskey in a Bottle” “Slumerican means: Slum American breed, gutter raised with worldwide dreams.” (Goldbaum, “I Met the Rappers Trying to Legitimize Hick-Hop and One of Them Licked Me”)
The hybrid allows those who are southern to relate to the second genre in this hybrid which the black community has claimed to be theirs. The second genre in this hybrid is heavy with beats, bass, and lyrics focused on communities and struggles one goes through. The hybrid takes the beats and heavy bass creating a dance between beats and guitars. Yet when I listen to the music I noticed that the first genre in some ways almost conforms so that it can fit with the second genre. When you listen to the songs in this genre the guitars become heavily synth like at times and depending on the artists. Additionally, if you were to listen to Yelawolf or Kid Rock they would pass off as another genre, however, Bubba Sparxxx and Big & Rich hold true to sound like the foundation of what the genre was made
Although these instruments are in the hybrid they tend to be heavily digitalized while also bringing cliche lyrics of Chevy pickup trucks and beer bottles. Not all artists use these cliche lyrics. Yelawolf who talks about his life growing up pretty often in his songs like “Whiskey in a Bottle” “Slumerican means: Slum American breed, gutter raised with worldwide dreams.” (Goldbaum, “I Met the Rappers Trying to Legitimize Hick-Hop and One of Them Licked Me”)
The hybrid allows those who are southern to relate to the second genre in this hybrid which the black community has claimed to be theirs. The second genre in this hybrid is heavy with beats, bass, and lyrics focused on communities and struggles one goes through. The hybrid takes the beats and heavy bass creating a dance between beats and guitars. Yet when I listen to the music I noticed that the first genre in some ways almost conforms so that it can fit with the second genre. When you listen to the songs in this genre the guitars become heavily synth like at times and depending on the artists. Additionally, if you were to listen to Yelawolf or Kid Rock they would pass off as another genre, however, Bubba Sparxxx and Big & Rich hold true to sound like the foundation of what the genre was made