Domino, the soulful sing-rapper whoвЂ™d had a big hit with вЂњGhetto JamвЂќ in 1993, was technically a St. Louis had never had a rap hope before Nelly. Everything around him seems to move with him. He moves with a self-assured lope, and he never stops, even for a second. In the video, heвЂ™s handsome and athletic and energetic. Instead, he stays right on top of the beat, bouncing along with it, broadcasting pure exhilaration. His voice is strained and raspy, but he never sounds like heвЂ™s working. On вЂњCountry Grammar,вЂќ Nelly takes the Bone Thugs approach to harmony and he sells it like heвЂ™s a chitlin-circuit soul singer in 1965. People had sung on rap beats before Nelly his fellow Midwesterners in Bone Thugs-N-Harmony had made a careful and intricate art of it. He namechecks Beenie Man and Onyx and Hannibal Lecter and Billy The Kid. Louis to Memphis, Texas back up to Indiana.

He shouts out localities that werenвЂ™t on the mainstream-rap map - St. He dizzily weaves through the track, veering shamelessly from one itchy and relentless cadence into the next.

says on вЂњCountry GrammarвЂќ works as a hook. Practically everything the 25-year-old Cornell Hayes Jr. But the voice on the song was new - an exuberant holler, strained and melodic. вЂњDown Down BabyвЂќ worked as pop music in 1959, when the R&B group Little Anthony & The Imperials adapted it into the doo-wop hit вЂњ Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop.вЂќ And вЂњDown Down BabyвЂќ worked again as pop music in 2000, when it seemed to be banging out of the trunk of every third car.Д«efore вЂњCountry Grammar (Hot Shit),вЂќ there was absolutely nothing like вЂњCountry Grammar (Hot Shit).вЂќ Producer James вЂњJay EвЂќ EppersonвЂ™s computerized brass-band stutter-step and blinky synth noises were familiar from the New Orleans bounce that Cash Money Records was just then taking mainstream.

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