You know when there are two types of food that shouldn't go well together, but when you mix them it's amazing? Kind of like potato chips and chocolate. On their own they're great, but dip those same chips in chocolate and it's amazing. That's exactly what happens with bluegrass and hip-hop, at least in the hands of Gangstagrass.
Gangstagrass is the brain child of Brooklyn producer Rench and other various rappers and musicians who have come together to make something completely new. They have taken two American staples and created something original.
With two albums behind them, including 2010's Lightning On the Strings, Thunder on the Mic and 2012's Rappalachia, "Long Hard Times to Come," was the track that really helped get things started. Tapped to be the opening theme for FX's series Justified, and even leading to an Emmy nomination for Rench and T.O.N.E-Z, this was America's introduction to a genre that can only be called by the group's name: Ganstagrass.
Filled with banjos, slide guitar, drum machine, and T.O.N.E-Z's rhymes, Gangstagrass makes the marriage of the two seemingly opposite sounds seamless and even natural. Something that only this group of guys could pull off.
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