Brooks & Dunn
March, 2007
Hip-hop and country can seem like diametrically opposed genres: urban versus rural, samples versus fingerpicking, one traditionally black, the other white. Then again, Rick Rubin followed up producing the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C. with a best-selling Johnny Cash record. Here's more evidence that suggests country and hip-hop are related after all.Compare "Life's a Bitch" by Nas or Tupac's "Pain" with George Jones's "Things Have Gone to Pieces" or "Funeral Parl...
