I’m blaming you for this blog, Kid Rock. You and that damned “Cowboy” song. It’s all your fault. Let’s talk about “hick-hop,” shall we? So I was under the foolish impression that hick-hop was shit ...

It began when prisoners from urban jails were moved to new "supermax" facilities in rural Appalachia. The racial tension between white corrections officers and black inmates could be felt throughout ...

It’s a little bit backwoods and a little bit street. Southern sound with an urban beat. It’s known as hick-hop — country narratives that add rap’s heavy bass and aggression to storylines about ...

Nelly’s “Country Grammar (Hot Shit),” the lead single from his 2000 album Country Grammar, is comfortably at home in 2025. He mentions AI, Donald Trump, and lighting up and taking a puff of chronic, ...

JIM White, who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian family in Pensacola, Fla., pens serious songs such as “God Was Drunk When He Made Me.” It’s no wonder, given the singer/songwriter’s eclectic past.

Sub-genre got its start in early 2000s with Shannon Houchins%2C Cowboy Troy Newer artists Colt Ford%2C LACs have under-the-radar cult following Music executives%2C radio still struggling to market ...