Why Country Music Looks And Sounds Like Hip-Hop Now

No thanks. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to country music. They really should change the name of country-hip-hop to something else and remove the word "country" out of it. It has strayed too far to be considered country. Just like a dress and lipstick doesn't make a biological guy a biological woman, boots and a hat doesn't make a song country.

Both country and rap have both gone pop

They said hip hop passed rock...bull crap! The record labels wont pay metal bands enough to make it worth their while to come tour in america. Its not that there isnt ppl in america who want to see metal bands...metallica sells out every show. I cant even tell you where to go see a hip hop concert i never here of them. Afroman played near here last year that was the only hip hop act i heard advertised ever. For whatever reason these record labels are pushing this crap out and telling ppl that its what everyone wants. I live near memphis and ive never even seen an advertisement for a hip hop show.

I'm 35 from Chicago we have a group called crucial conflict big in the early 90s. Their biggest hits is called Hay and Ride the Rodeo (my favorite part is when the girl sings "giddy up giddy up giddy up nah" over and over). Both are country music themed videos they used to play the video all the time on The Box, on the radio in clubs, it's still a popular hit with the 30+ crowd here. But Chicago is also a blues and lil country music city my aunt and her husband used to go line dancing, a few times they took me with them when they would go shopping for boots and hats in the Mexican neighborhoods 😂. And many folks here are from the deep south

You know when Country Music doesn't exist anymore when you ask a so called country fan in 2023 if they like George Jones and they reply...George Who? ☹️ So very,very sad. All gone.

Modern country is hip-hop for people that are afraid of black people.

It's absolutely terrible. I even hear hip-hop beats on fast food commercials

If people actually know music, they would know the history between the two genres goes further back, and this is just all music sounding more modern with electronic instrumentation

George strait is the only legit country artist

It's just so bad

I thought it was called Hick Hop?

This music is garbage.

pop country is a disgrace to the genre
artist like colter wall show real country songs

Not good enough to be country not good enough to be pop, it must be crap country.

Im not a big country fan, but I like the REALLY old stuff... and it's a damn shame what country music has become

That's isn't coutry sorry George strait he is a coutry singer

Who is the idiot in this video who claims that a genre of music is defined by who is listening to it (white people, or black people, or middle class white people, etc.) rather than the sound of the music itself. No. Just nope. By the way, the banjo is NOT the foundational instrument for country music. That would be the guitar. So, what do you get when you mix country + rap? Crap.

Welcome to the world of inclusivity where your own culture gets completely wiped out by the newcomers who just was in. And the whole world ends up sounding exactly the same so there's no individuality left.

Talk about racism all you want. ITS ABOUT CULTURE. Rap IS NOT RNB AND RNB IS NOT COUNTRY. ROCK IS NOT JAZZ , JAZZ IS NOT CLASSICAL. And so on. THIS IS A CULTURAL KILLING. It could happen to rap, rock or ANY OTHER GENRE. THATS THE POINT. IM WHITE AND I DONT WANT 2 PAC or The king of pop MICHAEL JACKSON, or Elvis Presley to sound like Beethoven. THATS THE POINT.!!! EACH ARTIST AND GENRE HAS THERE OWN UNIQUE SOUND. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN EVERYTHING IS THE SAME? Not very DIVERSE OR BEAUTIFUL HUH? THE SAME IS HAPPENING WITH GENDER , RELIGION AND OTHER BELIEFS. BEING THE SAME WILL NOT CREATE PEACE. WE NEED TO LEARN TO HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS AND STILL LIVE TOGETHER.

Country+rap= crap

Todays “country music” isn’t country not even remotely close. To me it’s a disgrace to all the greats who made real country music. From Hank Williams to Alan Jackson.

Country music turn into wigger music.

That's not true, both Country Music and Hip Hop is controlled by the same people corporations, they are not owned by separate companies/people. Also, The Guitar dates back as far as 1,200 AD in Spain, it could be thousands of years old and is similar to the Lute, the banjo is just a 5 string guitar.

Bring old country music back please.

Country music, like rock is dead. Country is hip hop with a ridiculous fake southern accent. Rock like Bad company, 38 Special, Led Zeppelin, even Hall and Oats and new wave is gone. Country like Merle, Waylon, Willie, Alan Jackson and george Jones is gone. I knew it was dead when I heard Carrie Underwood saying she never listened to country music. If you pinned Taylor Swift down I doubt she did either.

Hate both genres

Because everyone is superficial and has lost their freaking minds.

This and Grady Smith's video on clap tracks are this best. On the same subject and they are both same video.

some is true and sam hunt is fake but its becouse they want to be more popular

black redneck thomas sowell full circle?

It doesn’t sound like country

Country don’t sound like hip hop😂😂LOL thats just pop country

What a bulls lie.

Even hip hop is not pure hip hop like classic one. Stop cherry picking and only focusing country.

It's all so cringe. They're trying so hard to pander and it's just... awful.

In another words, they fucked up country music just for the stupid seek of popularity and money!!! Boomer!!

I want to know how white people are going to defend this

I think there are lots of different types of country music. Your general country music country Christian Roadhouse country trucker country and this new batch which I would consider something like trailer park country

That hip hop/country connection is what opened the door for me to the country genre as a whole.

God I miss Johnny Cash and Allan Jackson killing on the radio.

" if it weren't for black people, white people would be still doing the minuet.".. Slash from Guns N Roses

Country hasnt been country since 1998

BS. Country "Rap" is decades older than 1970's "Rap"

This is why I could never be a famous musician. I would play what I want to play, not what others want to hear. If it’s not broke, (I know things change) I wouldn’t fix it. 😂

Also, very informative video!

Nashville just needs a nuke, I wouldn't care except almost every store, restaurant or gas station you go to is playing that trash...I love about every type of music been to raves, Pink Floyd, wheeler walker, Post Malone, etc. But this new country makes my ears bleed.

Classic country and 90's country is best

This is Bullshit wrapped tight in a Nashville slim shady saleout,s ....

I am one of the (probably few) country fans from Germany. My love for country music started rather accidentally in 2001, when country music was played here on the American Forces Network (AFN) and I always tuned in by chance. I still remember the 3 essential songs from that time that attracted me to the genre: "Hearts are gonna Roll" by Hal Ketchum, "No more looking over my shoulder" by Travis Tritt and "Riding with Private Malone" by David Ball. Then, since using the internet to research and get into the genre more and more, I found that almost all the songs I particularly liked were from the 90s. 90's country also seems to be a specific subgenre as I learned. In my opinion, country music reached its peak in this decade, the perfect combination of "staying true to the roots" but also "opening up to something more pop-oriented". No other genre has managed to either put a smile on my face (e.g. "Drink, Swear Steal and Lie" by Michael Peterson) or even move me to tears (e.g. "Concrete Angel" by Martina McBride). And still I discover great new titles from this decade. But what saddens me is what country music has become. Of course it's always a matter of taste, but I personally don't like modern country music anymore. I sometimes tune in and then turn away disappointed. There are still highlights like Chris Stapleton etc., but on the whole it has nothing to do anymore with the country music I learned to love.

It started with black people should come back to black people

country music hasn't been country for over 40 years