I have somehow raised a couple Cummins driving, square toe boot wearing children. Not sure how my constant stream of Grunge, Tool and APC turned them to country but they listen to it on occasion when I'm around. Cody really should start promoting Morgan Walen because as far as I can tell he only sings about drinking.
The current rap country really perplexed me until I remembered all the Southern UT County boys in the 90s banging TuPac from their notch back ex highway patrol cars. Then it all made sense. I guess Lakeshore is the West side.
My nephew grew up in Herriman. He has a sticker on his truck that says "born and raised in the country". Herriman! If that's who he is and how he wants to be seen, then he can identify as country. No skin off my back.
I honestly think most "country" people I run into simply identify as country. Most modern country artists aren't from the country either. Being a country music "artist" is simply picking the low hanging fruit. The rap/country thing...like Jelly Roll or Nas X? I think Jelly Roll is an interesting case because he occupied space in the absolute second worst segment of "rap", the white trash/country/south rap (the first worst is anything relating to ICP), but if you listened to him you could tell he was way more talented than the weirdo's he was working with/around. Then he wrote and sang that bad ass country song, and proved that all you had to have was a RCH of talent and you could out-do ALL of the existing country performers in a single breath. Moral of the story, even the second worst form of rap is superior to all of country ha ha.
Who is Morgan Walen? Is she like T-swift for drunks? I could maybe get into that. My computer doesn't allow me to search for country artists because it knows I went to college, so for me to find the answer to that I have to go through extra steps.
