Hick Hop Rising (DVD)

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*** Résumé en anglais seulement ***Country Music Television recently declared that in 2013-2014...the genre of hick-hop was exploding across the charts, and the underground explosion was powerful enough to capture the Wall Street Journal's attention in a front page story where they revealed remarkably that while it doesn't get much airplay on major radio stations, the the all-ages mud-park shows, which feature dancers that shimmy around chain-link-fence poles cemented onto truck beds, can draw upward of 10,000 fans. After Rolling Stone Magazine declared that there's just no ignoring the hick-hop phenomenon, the mainstream music business finally began paying attention to what has for the past few years been the best-kept secret in Hip Hop and Country music alike. Check out your local Billboard Top Country Albums Chart, and you're likely to see country rap stars like The LACs debuting in the Top 20 sandwiched between mainstream country artists like Florida/Georgia Line and Jason Aldean, both of which have also begun to weave hick hop into their hits, w/one recent smash being Florida/Georgia's This is How We Roll, or Jason Aldean's collaboration with Colt Ford on the hit Drivin' Round Song, which has upward of 10 million Youtube views. In an era where Youtube has become the MTV of the 2000s, a new generation of D.I.Y. country rap stars have emerged from the underground, reaching tens of millions of Youtube views for videos often shot by the artists themselves. Now, for the first time on film, HICK HOP RISING: The True Story Behind the Birth of Country Rap takes fans and the broader world of music fans inside the real stories of the biggest artists in the genre, starring COLT FORD, BUBBA SPARXXX, JELLY ROLL, The LACs, MOONSHINE BANDITS, DEMUN JONES, LIL WYTE of 3-6 Mafia, REDNECK SOCIAL CLUB, LENNY COOPER, SARAH ROSS, CHARLIE BONNETT III, i4Ni, ALEXANDER KING, HAYSTAK, D-THRASH from MOCCASIN CREEK, SHANNON HOUCHINS, country rap culture and its fans are celebrated in this film!