Rench sez, "The previously BoingBoinged bluegrass hip-hop band Gangstagrass shares an exclusive premiere of their live video for 'Gunslinging Rambler featuring R-SON' - showing that this has gone way beyond a mash-up. Witness rapper, dj, and bluegrass band rocking the stage together at one of their face-melting shows in Brooklyn. We are offering the first peek at this to BoingBoing as a world premiere!"

I'm a great fan of this stuff. Gangstagrass performs exactly the kind of bluegrass music I favor and exactly the kind of hip-hop I favor, and seems to have discovered the alchemical secret of mixing the two perfectly.

Gangstagrass: Gunslinging Rambler featuring R-SON live at Southpaw (Thanks, Rench!)

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Sean Mangan

They do the intro to Justified, which is fantastic as well.
- piminnowcheez
  
  I love Justified, but the second that theme song comes on, I scramble for fast-forward.
Dave X

So on the day Ten$ion drops, you bring us this mess?
- Sean Mangan
  
  Not mutually exclusive tastes.
  Also, are you really saying BB doesn’t cover Die Antwoord enough?
Trig Discipline

Oh awesome, awful bluegrass and awful rap coming together to form something worse than either.
- Balance of Power
  
  Bah! Bunch of musical hipsters and curmudgeons. The concept is novel and this song is awesome. I look forward to hearing more.
boo

Laughed at the reference to Led Zeppelin.

Not the best bluegrass, and I am no judge of hip hop/rap, but I am pleased that somebody is doing it!

Too bad about the cranky people.
irksome

That there’s ‘Merican music!
http://twitter.com/petehindle Pete Hindle

Elements of the past and the future, combining to make something not quite as good as either.
- PaulDavisTheFirst
  
  love the comment, but not entirely clear on which bits come from the future …
Nathan Largesse

To enjoy music, I need to identify with it some, even just a little. There have been times in my life when I’ve identified with Hip-hop. And other times I’ve identified with bluegrass. But this music just doesn’t fit into me, no matter which way I turn it.
Oscar Owens

This is hot, and they are doing it live!
eltiki

Hick hop?
- Dave X
  
  In my area, this stuff would be called “hickster”.
Shawn-Ray Dalinsky

This is actually very awesome! I’m loving this mixture of genres!
http://twitter.com/SteveB_uk Stephen Ball

That works surprisingly well from 1.05! Even if neither of the genres are your thing, you’ve got to admit they mix better than anyone would have expected.

I like a lot of the similar parts (eg: 1.40) on ‘Shoot Dem’ here as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQr8BcDuTEY
http://twitter.com/james4765 Jim Nelson

Musical version of green tea ice cream. Not to everybody’s taste, but for some people, it’s unexpectedly awesome. Most of the bluegrass musicians I know, when I played their album for them, just started laughing in enjoyment and glee…
eraserhead666

That high, lonesome sound you hear? Bill Monroe doing about 6000RPM in his grave….
http://twitter.com/spudgrrl2011 max

Proof there’s always something for everyone’s tastes. I am a big fan of the “bang and twang” of Gangstagrass and T.O.N.E.-z
http://www.dead-logic.com Bud Uzoras

I love Gangstagrass. No, it’s not for everyone. Jim called it a “musical version of green tea ice cream,” which is accurate. Most of the criticisms I’ve read here are weak. Might as well have just said, “I don’t care for this style of music,” instead of wasting time with their pseudo-Bohemian shenanigans.
- irksome
  
  Maybe they’d like it more with a ukulele…
Susan Carley Oliver

Adam Warrock has created a great album, mashing up his own rap with samples of the bluegrass score from Firefly. Here’s a teaser for the album – it’s the first half that showcases the mood of the album (not sure why I can’t find the “Firefly” cut online). It definitely falls in the gangstagrass genre. Here’s the entire album. Love love love.
teddanson

Reminded me of Dizzee Rascal and Guthrie Govan doing a bluegrass guitar version of his track ‘Bonkers’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknBPGkhPgE
sebastian6

I got about a minute into it. I like bluegrass and hip-hop, but this is awful and trite.
http://profile.yahoo.com/3GFUUBJTOPDSHLS6FYZ4Y2GQHY Harry

You know, I was always told that I had strange musical taste. I am becoming a fan of Die Antwoord and now… I have a new genre to add to my strange taste. Boing Boing never lets me down on this….
xtalman

I am going to send this off to my wife’s uncle who did actually play with Bill Monroe. Not sure it he will talk to me again, though he did fiddle with the Stones many years ago.
http://www.kirbyamour.com/ Kirby Desmarais

Yeah it’s a green tea ice cream. AWESOME green tea icecream.
Elissa Berger

This is so cool. I wish I could see these guys live, but video is the next best thing. I’m going to get the album for sure.

Ganstagrass: world premiere of hip-hop/bluegrass video for "Gunslinging Rambler"

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