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...group has since developed what Drake calls a “fusion of funk and boy-band pop and ’80s synth music.” “Tommy and the Tigers” has even forayed into French rap and Chinese/hip-hop fusion. And Lowe is relentless in his efforts to promote his group...
...human-resources consultant. "I think of myself as a pretty unique dude," says Coleman. "But if you've been to a country bar recently and seen people dance to a George Strait song followed by a Ludacris song, you know I'm hardly the only person that likes rap and country mixed together...
...does grow on you and soon finds a stomping middle ground between the Sugarhill Gang and Charlie Daniels. In the online-opinion maelstrom, about 50% of people seem to enjoy their first exposure to hick-hop; the rest can safely be described as horrified. "Can't spell rap without crap" and "NOT COUNTRY ... A SICK DISGRACE" are common threads, with even moderate dissenters saying that while they may like country and rap separately, they would prefer they stay that way. Some call on CMT to stop playing the video. "Rapboy Troy is not CMT. He's MTV and BET. Plain...
...obverse of a certain white rapper whose skin is outwardly a comfort to his audience but whose substantive goal is to make that audience uncomfortable. Troy's skin and delivery may jar country traditionalists, but his material will set them at ease. "That's intentional," says Coleman. "I love rap, but my target audience is country. That's where my heart is." Hopefully, country will have space in its heart...
...because Albarn and Burton have stirred them all together. Dirty Harry has the shimmering keyboards of The Message and the eerily blank kiddie chorus of Another Brick in the Wall. O Green World has a Song 2 guitar line and a countermelody seemingly by Atari. Reference points from rock, rap, dance, dub and world music pop up and disappear again, blending until Demon Days feels like a unified theory of music (even if it never generates anything so rigorous or fussy as an actual theory). Burton says he hopes he gave Albarn "the metaphor he wanted...