{"id":90,"date":"2016-01-15T19:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T02:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theunhype.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2016-01-15T19:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T02:15:35","slug":"not-all-country-rap-is-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1stdrop.co\/state-of-music\/not-all-country-rap-is-crap\/","title":{"rendered":"Not All Country Rap Is Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>What Happens When a Previous Underground MC, Songwriter and Lyricist, Mixes Rhymes With Country, Bluegrass, and Americana?<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-dcd2069817a0e3d34ae04cad8f3443c7 hr-default  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_third '><span class='hr-inner '><span 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itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4>Grand Canyon Chapter1<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/160242775&amp;color=2d5e88&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-5e83d3561ff7e9e65c8090a35dc26283-wrap avia-button-center  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr '><a href='http:\/\/itunes.com\/beartheastronot' class='avia-button av-av_button-5e83d3561ff7e9e65c8090a35dc26283 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-large avia-position-center avia-color-theme-color' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue801' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Buy on iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-dcd2069817a0e3d34ae04cad8f3443c7 hr-default  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_button  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4>Grand Canyon Chapter2<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/160271733&amp;color=2d5e88&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-5e83d3561ff7e9e65c8090a35dc26283-wrap avia-button-center  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='http:\/\/itunes.com\/beartheastronot' class='avia-button av-av_button-5e83d3561ff7e9e65c8090a35dc26283 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-large avia-position-center avia-color-theme-color' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue801' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Buy on iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_third-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_third-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_two_third-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28 av_two_third  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_hr  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Some Might Say It&#8217;s Magic<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-dcd2069817a0e3d34ae04cad8f3443c7 hr-default  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Look, it happens all the time. Some guy who writes bad poems in High School decides to hook up with his buddies Hard Rock band and change the face of music forever. \u00a0Tada! It&#8217;s Rap Rock!<\/p>\n<p>Then some strung out rave kid floating high on a cloud of ecstasy decides he really needs to put some more club into the club music. \u00a0Tada! It&#8217;s everything on the radio in 2014-2015.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t always go as bad as you think though. \u00a0For every annoying song you hear on the radio, there is probably an established scene of artists paving the way for something interesting and new.<\/p>\n<h3>So let&#8217;s talk about Bear the Astronot<\/h3>\n<p>Bear has been a musician for decades. \u00a0His aptitude for creating poetry and rhymes in school led him to become an MC at the age of 12. \u00a0Now you have to remember, he was 12 in 1992, the height of everything Hip-Hop was his testing ground. He had lots of friends in Heavy Metal and Punk bands so he started rapping with them. \u00a0You have to remember, this was a time ruled by the almighty Metallica. \u00a0No one had even heard of Linkin Park or Rage Against the Machine. \u00a0Now lets fast forward. \u00a0Now it&#8217;s the year 2000, and Bear is a professional DJ. \u00a0Here is an average Saturday night for DJ Bear at this time. \u00a0He shows up to the club at about 8pm with 100 pounds of vinyl. \u00a0He sets up and plays Old School Hip-Hop, Top 40, and Dance Music until about 1pm. \u00a0He then runs across the street to a huge club for after hours. \u00a0The capacity is close to 3,ooo and he plays Progressive House, Trance, and Techno until 4am. \u00a0He then jumps into the car after loading up all 100 pounds of vinyl and drives across town to the After After Hours spot. \u00a0A dingy strobe light and smoke machine haunted house of an adult club. \u00a0There he plays Chill and Trance until 9am. \u00a0A fairly eclectic Saturday into Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Bear starts attending Music School, and keeps telling all of his class mates that Dance and House mixed with Hip-Hop is the next big thing. \u00a0They all through crumpled papers at him and offer to sign him up for counseling. Bear continues in several other bands, touring around, and mixing Rock, Hip-Hop, and Dance music with the Early 90&#8217;s Hip-Hop he loves and adores. Now lets Fast Forward again.<\/p>\n<p>Bear is known as an impeccable lyricist, and is respected on the underground hip-hop scene for clever stage antics, energetic performances, and eclectic sounds that all encompass powerful Alternative Hip-Hop. But he is tired. \u00a0He has done enough shows with Back Pack rappers to last a lifetime. He has always spent his time not working out in the woods hiking, hunting, and exploring. \u00a0He starts to miss a simpler life, like the one he had growing up in The Grand Canyon National Park. He decides to take a break from music. During his hiatus he drowns himself in old country records he inherited from his various Country Loving family members. He spends way more time listening to banjo laden Bluegrass songs than he does 808 laden Drake tracks. \u00a0He feels comfortable in something he knows as familiar. \u00a0The lyrics of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson start to burn a whole in his soul.<\/p>\n<p>About this time Bear has moved way back out into the sticks. \u00a0The closest venue to his property is an antique, literally historical venue called The Museum Club. \u00a0This makes him feel even more at home among the dingy pictures of Country Crooners that hang with respect on the walls. And then it happens. \u00a0Bear starts to make music again. How the hell is this going to work?<\/p>\n<p>How do you mix Mos Def with Merle Haggard, and Sage Francis with Eric Church? Well, you just make music that feels good. \u00a0That is exactly what Bear the Astronot started to do.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Now Let&#8217;s Talk Country Rap<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>If any genre of music could give Rap music a run for it&#8217;s money when it comes to cliches it would be country. \u00a0But there we go again, forgetting that this isn&#8217;t exactly true. \u00a0Radio Rap and Radio Country are full of cliches. \u00a0Radio Rap about Making Money, Mistreating Women, and Stunting on Bitches gets old. \u00a0So does Radio Country about Trucks, Drinking, and Corn Fields. But then you have to dissect that statement. \u00a0Is a corn field really a cliche? \u00a0How much of these things are actually a part of the music because they portray a lifestyle?<\/p>\n<p>Well which ever way you look at it, Bear needed to work with and around plenty of cliches to avoid being summed up in the same category as Colt Ford, Big Smo and the like. There is absolutely nothing wrong with their music! \u00a0It definitely has a huge crowd and serves a purpose. \u00a0When you look at it though Bear could never be Luke Bryan just as much as he could never be Kendrick Lamar. \u00a0His music has always, and will always sit in place that is nothing like the genres it utilizes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>The Grand Canyon Project<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-0366cc7376be6c9e82a3e9cc8987b64f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>So the challenge is apparent. \u00a0Make music that speaks about a childhood growing up in The Grand Canyon National Park, hiking, fishing, and exploring vast uncivilized areas of the United States. \u00a0Add in the fact that Bear also lived on the Navajo Reservation multiple times with his Grand Mother, and experienced white water rafting the Colorado River about the same time he decided he wanted to be an MC. \u00a0Confusing isn&#8217;t it. \u00a0You try to reign it all together and make a rap song about it. \u00a0I dare you!<\/p>\n<p>So the Grand Canyon Project began with about 5 songs written to mix country and Hip-Hop. \u00a0Bear hadn&#8217;t released any albums in years, just some mixtapes and the like, so once he started back in it was like someone opened the flood gates. \u00a0Ideas came pouring out, and soon he had about 6o songs. \u00a0Some were Hip-Hop, Some were Blues, Some were Country, Some were Bluegrass, Some something completely different. \u00a0He thought about making different albums for each, but then as he thought further he remembered Magic.<\/p>\n<p>That Tada! Magic that we talked about earlier. \u00a0The stuff that pushes musical boundaries, and sets artists hearts free to roam as they please.<\/p>\n<p>He thought about the Grand Canyon. \u00a0A place were the population was about 1,200 if that during the winter and then burst into Millions of People from every country on earth during the Tourist Season. \u00a0A place were Chinese and German echoed across the same canyon just as much as English. \u00a0He thought about riding rivers, and camping, and DJ&#8217;ing, and opening for 2 Live Crew and Ice Cube and Young Thug. \u00a0He thought about trees.<\/p>\n<p>And then he released the first two parts of the Grand Canyon project.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen and decide if it&#8217;s Hip-Hop, or Country, or Bluegrass, or Blues, or Rock.<\/p>\n<p>In the end who cares, just find some songs you like, and think about where you came from.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><div  class='hr av-av_hr-dcd2069817a0e3d34ae04cad8f3443c7 hr-default  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