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, ...

DALLAS - Cowboy Troy can't walk into a concert venue without turning heads. He knows there's no way a 6-foot-5-inch black country rapper can escape the curious stares. Especially when he's wearing a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cowboy Troy gets that look a lot. He'll be hanging around an arena before a show and see a black person who works there.

WHITESBURG, Ky. (AP) - Some call the unusual blend of rural and urban music hillbilly hip-hop. Others call it hick-hop. The collaboration of banjos, fiddles and drums set to a beat that would leave a ...

Colt Ford is a little bit rap, rock and hip-hop, but if you ask him, he’s 100 percent country. “Most people listen to all kinds of stuff. They don’t just listen to one thing,” said Ford, aka former ...