and in today's music landscape, country artists have strategic reasons to embrace hip-hop sounds and aesthetics. Country's drift toward hip-hop started in the late 2000s with the wave of so-called ...

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There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...

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