Drake wearing App jacket

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

I prefer the old school Beastie Boys picture with one wearing an App State basketball t shirt. Admittedly, they never achieved Drake status even if I know their songs but couldn't name one of his (I am sure I have heard one I just don't know it is his song).

so the point is the southern Appalachian mtns are the nexus of hip hop culture.

Hey now, Nelly is having a LOT of success with his hip hop/country music cross over stuff. He's done releases with Florida Georgia Line, Darius Rucker, Kane Brown, and is about to release a single with Chris Lane (who's from Kernersville, NC). He's also working on a second crossover album with some ladies of country music. He's bringing urban and country together.

It will be interesting to see where this fusion of styles and genres take us in a decade or two. It may fizzle out and be no more than a very obscure subgenre but it may morph into its own section at the record store.

There have always been some musical acts that would be hard to classify and different stores would group them in different categories. This may lead to more of that. Not a bad thing in my view.

[WVAPPeer]

I believe The Eagles took a calculated shift to more of a Country-Rock

[Rick83]

I prefer the old school Beastie Boys picture with one wearing an App State basketball t shirt. Admittedly, they never achieved Drake status even if I know their songs but couldn't name one of his (I am sure I have heard one I just don't know it is his song).

so the point is the southern Appalachian mtns are the nexus of hip hop culture.

Hey now, Nelly is having a LOT of success with his hip hop/country music cross over stuff. He's done releases with Florida Georgia Line, Darius Rucker, Kane Brown, and is about to release a single with Chris Lane (who's from Kernersville, NC). He's also working on a second crossover album with some ladies of country music. He's bringing urban and country together.

It will be interesting to see where this fusion of styles and genres take us in a decade or two. It may fizzle out and be no more than a very obscure subgenre but it may morph into its own section at the record store.

There have always been some musical acts that would be hard to classify and different stores would group them in different categories. This may lead to more of that. Not a bad thing in my view.

I agree and I can attest that Nelly is passionate about it and wants to create a new sub-category of country music with hip hop/rap influences.

[MrCraig]

I believe The Eagles took a calculated shift to more of a Country-Rock

I have a thesis in my head that I’ve never actually written or researched that says all popular music basically split into hip hop and country around 2010. Most rock music shifted to “country” and most pop music became “hip hop”

[APPdiesel]

As a rock radio DJ of 15 years I would tell you you're wrong.

[appdaze]

One of the biggest pop-rock bands in the world is Imagine Dragons, who are still all over the airwaves. Twenty-one pilots have had some hits in the last couple of years. Now, if your definition of rock stopped in 1979, then sure, most pop-rock out there now doesn't sound as rocky. A lot of the current rock has a heavy 90's influence, think chili papers, 311, grunge, collective soul, rage, pumpkins, etc... of whom were influenced heavily by acdc and punk rockers. The classic Led Zepplin, Bruce Springsteen, and Jimi Hendrix sound isn't as mainstream as it once was. It is still out there, just not hitting the billboard 100 every year. Neither is the southern rock some of the best out there, like the Drive by Truckers, couldn't really crack the mainstream either.

It's easy to think hip-hop and country have replaced everything because you can churn those genres out like nobody's business without a lot of technical musical talent. Drum machines and pre-recorded sounds have consumed those two. I would actually argue that some of the hit country songs aren't country at all but rock songs. I think the real issue is the mislabeling of a lot of what is out there.

I could go on, but I don't want to get on a lecture soap box on music in a thread about Drake wearing an App jacket and people debating the fame level of someone who has had a top 10 billboard hit most of the last 5-8 years.