The song appears on his debut album for a Nashville country label, Honeysuckle & Lightning Bugs, a distinctive, demo-like collage of ideas otherwise populated with Southern-accented excursions into nostalgia and heartache.Ī lot of Brown’s tracks are built on familiar country and R&B song structures, but are also musically playful.

Several jillion streams of “Old Town Road” later, that moment has assuredly arrived, and Brown’s arch hoedown riff “The Git Up” spawned a bit of a dance craze, and a country chart hit (largely through streaming rather than radio) in its own right. I feel like your music is kind of the answer to the conversation that “Old Town Road” started, proving that country and hip-hop sounds can work together.Atlanta-based Blanco Brown spent years accumulating writing and production credits with hitmakers in pop, hip-hop, and country while also developing a hybrid he dubbed “trailer trap”-all he needed was the right moment to roll it out. The record’s got to come out.” I didn’t know it would be big this fast, but I did know it would bring joy. Originally the EP was supposed to come out May 31st, and “The Git Up” was supposed to be like a filler, but after “Old Town Road” the whole plan changed. I called Jon Loba and was like, “Now is the moment. He beat me to what I had held close to my heart for years. ĭo you feel like Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” opened the door for “The Git Up?” I feel like I’ve opened enough eyes and hearts and minds now that what I’ve always stood for is. Go do something productive in the world.” It’s more so about the messages my music bigger than anything is chasing your purpose in life. “The Git Up” is dedicated to my grandmother telling us every morning, “Get up. The song never actually says “The Git Up” in the lyrics. How Blanco Brown's 'The Git Up' Has Him Primed to Be the Next Country Trap Sensation It reminded me of the same joy I listening to Al Green. I was like, “This has to be a dance song.” 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? 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. You have produced for Chris Brown and Fergie.

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