Brooklyn-based musician Rench has released Ganstagrass as a free download, and it is chock full of hip-hop banjo goodness.
Fron Rench’s web site:
“Check out Gangstagrass, a full-length mashup of Underground hip-hop vocals with Rench beats and straight up bluegrass samples. It features some of the really talented emcees I have recorded at Rench Audio, including Infinitee, TONE, and Deep Thoughts/Kaz-Mir from Black Market. It also features tons of uncleared samples from early bluegrass, folk ballads, and blues, and more current bluegrass stuff as well - Thats why its all there for free download.”
One word of caution, the language gets rough at some points.
Main Download page: http://www.gangstagrass.com/
Ganstagrass on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/gangstagrass
May 12, 2008 at 11:57 am
The lyrics are not folksy gang style black blues?perhaps.
May 12, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Excellent! Banjoes and Hamsters!! This make any banjo detractors think twice.
May even fire up my old “loop” software.
May 12, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Wow, that’s a LOT better than I expected it would be. The bluegrass binds enough melody to the verse for me to really get into this. I’m gonna be passin’ this on.
May 13, 2008 at 6:13 pm
It was interesting-till the rapping got in the way. I’ll pass.