Rap vs. Country

Rap and country music are totally on opposite sides of the spectrum when it comes to the musical style of the two.  Country is generally slower and you can understand what is coming out of the artists mouth.  Country is more focused on the lyrics than on really the beat of the song.  On the other hand, rap is faster paced and the lyrics are usually pretty hard to understand and even if you do look up lyrics to a song online, you STILL sometimes won't even understand what they are talking about or the point they are trying to get across.

On the outside, these two generes seem completely different, but when you look deeper into it they have a lot of similarities.  When you look at the die hard fans of rap compared to the die hard fans of country, they are actually a lot alike.  I can pretty much bet that 95% of the fans of rap HATE country and the fans of country HATE rap.  Another similarity that they have is that the fans are also both sterotyped a lot.  When you picture a rap music fan or artist, you think of someone who is a gangster type who wears baggy clothes and lots of bling and flaunts their money.  When you think of a country star or fan you think of the cowboy who wears flannel and tight jeans with the big belt buckle and cowboy boots.  Another similarity is that both of these music types originated from the south.  That is something that a lot of people don't even think about.