As I the lap steel, I put in 808s with beatboxing, then added snares, played tambourine and put spoons on there. I felt like I had just created something close to “Achy Breaky Heart”: You couldn’t take the song serious, but then you can’t make the song a joke either, because it was a smash. My friend brought a lap steel to the studio. I had no idea I was going to write that song. I was just like, “Ain’t nobody no trash, so how could you say that?” So it’s trailer park meets trap I bridged the gap. I believe in unity, so it’s one word: trailertrap. I grew up in the hood of Atlanta, Ga., but in the summertime I would go to Butler, GA - so I had a little bit of the trap side and a little bit of the trailer park side. I wanted to put a positive notion on the word “trailer trash,” because I never liked that word. You’ve dubbed your music “trailertrap.” How did you come up with that?
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I was like, “I feel like I could really bless people with music and the messages in my music.” I started riding in shared Lyfts to play my records in 2017, and I realized had nothing to do with my race. I never got a negative response. You can’t sing country.” And I was like, “Look at Darius Rucker.” And they were like, “Darius Rucker tricked everybody, he was in Hootie & The Blowfish first.” I was like, “I don’t know if y’all have a point!” Then, as I was demo-ing records for Kane Brown in 2015, I was like, “I could do this!” My friends would be like, “You‘re black. What led you to country music?Ĭountry was my first outlet, I escape realities and write about fantasies.
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You have produced for Chris Brown and Fergie. 51 in its second week.Īs the song keeps climbing up the charts, Billboard chatted with Brown about how “The Git Up” came to be and how it continues what “Old Town Road” started. It also landed Brown his first Billboard Hot 100 hit, currently sitting at No. 2 on the Country Streaming Songs chart (dated June 29) after just two weeks. Seven years later, Brown now has his own boundary-pushing hit with “The Git Up,” a twangy feel-good track that’s initiated a viral dance craze, thanks to its instructional lyrics like “Take it to the left now and dip with it/ Gon’ throw down take a sip with it/ Now lean back put your hips in it.” Fans have shared countless videos with their own take on the dance, which has helped “The Git Up” shoot to No. 1 on Emerging Artists Chart, Thanks to Breakout Hit 'The Git Up' See Blanco Brown’s announcement below.Blanco Brown Hits No. She self-released Beauty Marks (her 7th LP) earlier this year, gave us a couple of notable collaborations including “Evapora” with Iza and Major Lazer, and recently dropped the feel-good “Melanin.” A country anthem might seem a little left field for the R&B icon, but “The Git Up” is a dance song and nobody moves better than CiCi. The remix caps another busy year for Ciara. While “real soon” could mean anything in the music industry, this week’s New Music Friday is a fairly safe bet. “What if I told y’all this was coming real soon?!” the artist/producer captioned the cover art of “The Git Up” version 2.0 on Instagram. The unstoppable bop is about to get a second wind thanks to the imminent release of a remix featuring Ciara.
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Blanco Brown’s ruthlessly catchy “The Git Up” also cracked the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and performed even better internationally - going top 10 in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” wasn’t the only country/hip-hop hybrid to crossover in 2019.