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The format was supposed to be that *you guys* would suggest some country song and *I* would suggest the hip-hop song. But I guess we can do this back asswords. Let's see what happens. Title: C.R.E.A.M. Artist: Wu-Tang Clan Year: 1993 Quick take: Classic hip-hop sampling here. Wu-Tang always blended understated beats and deceptively deep stories. But as catchy as it sounds, was "CREAM" an acronym before Wu-Tang made it up? Make Country Hip-Hop Count: Cars  - Minivan reference! "Rollin' in [Mazda] MPV's... Ch-chick-POW!" Baby - This song has no time for girls. It's about growing up and surviving on the streets. Dirt  - Uuuuhhh, Ol' Dirty Bastard y'all (not featured here, but still). RIP Dirt Dog. Small Town - Shaolin land, er Staten Island. This is the smallest of NYC's 5 boroughs, so that is as small town as it gets. Guitar - In a place where they pull out gats for fun, there's just the sound of stray shots Good o...

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This is the first line of Chris LeDoux's wiki page: "Chris LeDoux was a Rodeo Cowboy who sang and recorded songs in his spare time and sold his albums from the back of his truck."   That is serious country street cred. I'm interested. Title: This Cowboy's Hat Artist: Chris LeDoux Year: 1991 Quick take: This is a simple song about not touching a man's hat. Everyone knows not to touch a man's woman, a man's car, or a man's hat. This song is simply a reminder not to disrespect a fella. Make Country Count: Cars  - Nope, but one old boy said, "Hey Tex, where'd you park your horse?" Baby - Nope. This song is strictly about his costume hat. One reference to a husky fella though, if you are into the bear thing. Dirt  - Nope, but props for several rodeo + weather references: Riding black tornadoes, roping a Blue Norther', and bulldoging the Mississippi River. I had to look up most of the rodeo terms. Small Town - This took pla...

In Week 6, I proclaimed that country music sucks. You told me some songs I needed to add to my playlist. "Uh is this a joke?!? Fk country music." -As Donkey As I Want To Be (KS)   Nope. Not a joke. Zero points. Let’s do this. Title: Cruise Artist: Florida Georgia Line Year: 2012 Quick take: Starting with “Baby you a song,” and assuming FGL really love making songs, they must love this girl like they made her themselves.  This is a song literally about cruising in your car and not much else. The Internet tells me that by April 2013, Cruise had become the best-selling song by a country duo in digital history. I don’t need to look to see if this record held. This song is a dumb country pop song. A dumb song that stands with countless other dumb pop songs. Make Country Count: Cars  - 1 truck, 3 Chevy's, KC fog lights Baby - 10 baby's, 2 girl's. Really surprised there weren't more. Dirt  - Has a "back road" in the chorus. Also references...

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With Washington playing Philly on Monday Night Football last week, and after all the sit/stand/kneel/fist drama, last week's bonus question just came to me. Who is the most patriotic team? For whom would our country's founders be fanatics today, with their superlative declarations written in cursive on parchment in the bleachers? According to the dictionary, patriotic means expressing one's kindness in a way that appears superior to the subject. Oh wait, or is that patronising. Whatever. You guys -- like really answered the bonus question. All the answers were great because they ranged from just naming a team without explanation to some science and history. Everyone who answered gets points, and the main benefit of the bonus question is that we all win because we get to read the answers. I'll start with what may have been the obvious choice (or was it?). The " Patriots ". It's in the name, so they must be patriotic. However, two of you wrote ...

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I had an idea, and it was good. I was reaching to save myself from XM’s pop station. I was really reaching to save myself from that song about the body and the back-roads. I dislike country music for a variety of reasons. I don’t enjoy the forced accents or songs about dirt and mundane details of life. Hearing dudes in fake deep accented voices saying the word “baby”.... yughhk. I’m not saying there isn't any good country music. I'm not a millennial. I still buy music from time to time, and I have a little country. But what I’m not going to do is actively put in the work to try to discover good country. I can't stomach suffering through the dumb stuff. Is the genre still relevant? Well that’s something googlable. Turns out, the late 90’s and early 00’s were peak country, y'all. I don't really remember that. During that time period, the genre owned more of the Billboard charts than either Hip-Hop or Pop. But today? Pop is king. Metal is dead. Hip-hop is as stro...

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