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« Edit This | Main | Outside My Window » November 18, 2004Bucking the Nashville SystemNashville, the home of country music, has long had dreams of becoming more than that in the music business, but never has had much luck launching a non-country music artist or band to national stardom. Until this year when a rapper named Young Buck released Straight Outta Ca$hville, and saw it debut at No. 3 on the Billboard chart. Now, Young Buck is being sought in connection with a stabbing at Monday night's Vibe Awards, an assault apparently sparked when Buck's musical mentor, Dr. Dre, was punched just before being handed a lifetime achievement award.In the rap music business, just living for very long is itself an achievement. Young Buck's real name is David Brown. He has an arrest record with seven charges including domestic assault, reckless driving, possession of controlled substance and driver's license violations. ''He brought national attention to Nashville, you can't deny that. What he did was amazing for hip-hop and Nashville,'' says Stacy Jones, better known as Coffee, half of Nashville Christian rap duo Grits. ''I never met him officially, but from what I've seen he seems like a positive cat. He's been all about the (Nashville) community. That causes me to think that despite everything on the news, you know, the story's always deeper. It's sad and it's tragic - my prayers go out to his family and everyone he loves. But, if you perpetuate that lifestyle, it always catches up with you."Violent criminal rap artists. I don't think that's the kind of national attention the Nashville chamber of commerce is hoping to see generated by the local music industry. The Nashville Scene published a lengthy story about Young Buck a few months ago. But their website is so poorly designed that I can't locate it. UPDATE: Thanks to Chris Wage, here's the link to the Scene's story on Young Buck, published in the September 2 edition. "I come from a city that's not known at all for hip-hop," Buck says, talking by phone from Manhattan's Meridien Hotel the day after making his first appearance on MTV's Total Request Live. "To be able to bring the whole world of hip-hop to my city, that's a major deal, man. You know what I'm saying? It's not just me I'm bringing. It's the biggest, largest hip-hop artists of the world that I'm involved with, and the whole industry that's behind that. It's on, now, man. I'm going to make Nashville known for something it ain't never been known for. It's going to shock the world."Man, ya gotta love the image-boost Buck's album gives to Nashville. Straight Outta Ca$hville opens with the sound of Buck taking a deep hit on a joint or a pipe, then coughing. Gunfire follows, and then a threat: "It's about to go down - welcome to Cashville, mothaf---as!" Set to a spare, slowly bouncing rhythm, the first track, performed in unison with 50 Cent, begins, "I'm a soldier / I done told ya / Don't make me f--k you up."Lovely. Though it's not quite Will the Circle Be Unbroken, now, is it? Thanks, Young Buck, for bringing the whole violent world of rap to Nashville. It's on now, man. We're going to be known for something we ain't never been known for: violent rap artists. Oh. Joy. You wanna shock the world, Young Buck? Turn yourself in. Posted in Nashville
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''He brought national attention to Nashville, you can't deny that. What he did was amazing for hip-hop and Nashville,'' says Stacy Jones, better known as Coffee, half of Nashville Christian rap duo Grits. ''I never met him officially, but from what I've seen he seems like a positive cat. Heh. What a poser. How was this "amazing for hip-hop"? The Nashville Scene published a lengthy story about Young Buck a few months ago. But their website is so poorly designed that I can't locate it. I agree. Their website is horrible. Any links to their stories break shortly because they use a static URL to refer to the current issue and then move those stories to a different URL later when they are archived. I've also told them repeatedly their website renders like $@(&*# in Opera, even though it's one of the browsers they recommend. Oh well. Anyways, the article is here. You'll find that the "text-only" version of their site has a search engine that makes it a little easier to navigate. Posted by: Chris Wage at November 18, 2004 08:53 AMAnother lyric goes (not quite verbatim, but close), "My momma just had a dream of seein' me in prison." Prescient, his mother. Posted by: Mark at November 18, 2004 07:02 PMdeleted - spam Posted by: Pete at November 19, 2004 03:59 AMUhhhm, nice SPAM post there Pete ; ) Loved the article Bill, but I guess this is the price of progress? Posted by: Darrell at November 19, 2004 04:05 AMI think that Young Buck is a great hip-hop artist and whoever wrote that about him should be ashamed. Young Buck, being a black man in today's society, is realing striving to become someone and even though obsticales have stood in his way, I feel he has still overcome and achieved goals of himself and those who look up to him. Posted by: Tiffany at January 10, 2005 08:14 AMPost a comment
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