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, ...

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 ...

No, Foreign Officials Do Not Get First Amendment Immunity from U.S. Sanctions Is the Castro Indictment a Prelude to a Maduro-Style Op? Caution: May Cause Billionaires A Gas-Tax Holiday Won’t Help ...

Twelve years after releasing his first album, the man known as Big Smo has become a superstar. He mashes country and rap into what the mammoth Tennessee native affectionately calls hick-hop. After ...

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 ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT John Smith, aka Big Smo, is a country music star on the cusp of the Next Big Country Thing: Hip-hop/country fusion. On the eve of the release of his first major label (Warner) album, ...

I'm Farai Chideya, and this is NEWS & NOTES. In some ways, Troy Coleman looks like your average cowboy. He's tall and wears an oversized hat, big boots and a shiny belt buckle. But this Texan is ...