{"id":5867,"date":"2024-12-31T18:33:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2025-05-17T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T23:04:28","slug":"shaboozey-redefining-what-it-means-to-be-a-modern-country-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"Shaboozey Redefining What It Means To Be A Modern Country Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaboozey has long been inspired by the romantic notion of the outlaw: \u201cThe guy who\u2019s standing against a whole bunch of folks and it\u2019s like, \u2018We\u2019re going to take them down.\u2019 Yeah, you can try!\u201d the musician tells Apple Music\u2019s Kelleigh Bannen.<\/p>\n

The obsession is less quaint than it sounds. Having pored through old western films, dime-store pulp novels, and gunslinger ballads \u00e0 la Marty Robbins, the Virginia native noticed that old-school cowboy culture and hip-hop share a preoccupation with all things American renegade.<\/p>\n

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The conversation around country music\u2019s Black roots will sound familiar to anyone who tuned in to Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s COWBOY CARTER, which featured Shaboozey on two tracks. (\u201cBeyonc\u00e9\u2019s been such a big part of being Black in America,\u201d he said, still in awe of the opportunity. \u201cAt every point in our lives, she has had some sort of cultural impact.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old singer\/rapper has been staking his territory in the space between hip-hop and country for a decade, redefining what it means to be a modern country star. His third album, Where I\u2019ve Been, Isn\u2019t Where I\u2019m Going, plays out like a classic American road movie, opening with steel guitar, the gallop of horse hooves, and Shaboozey with his foot on the gas, fresh out of smokes and headed nowhere in particular.<\/p>\n

On tracks like \u201cLet It Burn,\u201d his rich baritone is equal parts Willie, Waylon, and woozy blues rap \u00e0 la Future. Elsewhere, he channels Imagine Dragons\u2019 arena-ready roots rock, where breakup banger \u201cAnnabelle\u201d hits the sweet spot between Fleetwood Mac and Post Malone. But the star-making moment is \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d the breakaway hit of 2024\u2019s Stagecoach Festival: a Southern-fried riff on a 20-year-old J-Kwon club classic with TGIF vibes.<\/p>\n

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Shaboozey has long been inspired by the romantic notion of the outlaw: \u201cThe guy who\u2019s standing against a whole bunch of folks and it\u2019s like, \u2018We\u2019re going to take them down.\u2019 Yeah, you can try!\u201d the musician tells Apple Music\u2019s Kelleigh Bannen. The obsession is less quaint than it sounds. Having pored through old western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversations","category-streamapse-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5870,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions\/5870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}