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Blanco Brown Explains Why Mashing Up Hip Hop And Country Is Nothing New · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When industry leaders talk
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  Speaker 1: about who's next in the music game, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: conversations sent around the name Blanco Brown, a guy who
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  Speaker 1: likens X, is seamlessly fusing country and hip hop with
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  Speaker 1: great results. And though Blanco admits he did rush the
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  Speaker 1: release of his Rising to Get Up to capitalize on
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  Speaker 1: the successive Old Town Road, mashing rap with country is
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  Speaker 1: nothing new for him or hip hop in general. He explains,
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  Speaker 1: at time, Bone Thugs and Harmony and E forty made
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  Speaker 1: country songs. Nelly, Bubba Sparks, Nappy Roots had a country
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  Speaker 1: twining to them too. They weren't trying to identify his country.
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  Speaker 1: They were just being themselves. And that's what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be country. I am country. It's
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  Speaker 1: not traditional country. But if I delete my drum breaks,
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  Speaker 1: you can't take back the fact that it's traditional country.
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  Speaker 1: It lies at the surface. The get Up is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.