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 they’re “dinosaurs.” Gangsta Tea claims real cowboys don’t 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 Commission’s debut CD, Banned From Nashville, will be released July 31.

Wed 07-25-01