And Bohagon is definitely country. Reared in tiny Talbotton, Ga. (population: approximately 1,019), he’s the type of cat who says things like, “I feel like I sprouted from the dirt,” and “Musically, I go through the same thing that my great-grandfather went through sharecropping,” without thinking twice. Not that he should. In the increasingly crowded Southern rap universe, Bohagon is poised to stake a claim all his own. “People done heard Southern music, but there’s different parts to it,” he says from his perch on a stool in an empty sports bar at the Radisson Hotel in Milford, Mass. After 55 dates on the road with Lil Jon and crew as part of the Anger Management 3 and Massacre tours, Bohagon rests whenever he can. And in this moment, he’s content with discussing various Dirty styles. “You got crunk music, D-boys’ music, and that shit,” he continues, “but there’s a different struggle that the world needs to hear. They haven’t heard country music. They haven’t heard the blues.”
Well, technically they have (Tim McGraw, anyone?), but before you get to thinking that Bohagon is more Bojangles than ’bow throwing, there are a few things you should keep in mind. Bohagon spent his youth shuttling between Talbotton and some of Atlanta’s roughest ’hoods, his first records appeared on the seminal So So Def Bass All-Stars compilations, and now he’s officially rolling with the King of Crunk himself through Jon’s BME/Warner Bros. deal. (The ink dried in 2003, and the album, Georgia Durt, is coming in early ’06.) Says Bohagon, “If you in the country, I’m the gateway to the city. If you in the city, I’m the gateway to the country. I’m where it all intersects.”
Or as Lil Jon puts it, “Bohagon is the old soul of the clique. He’s not crunk, he’s just Southern.” You could even call him country.
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Comments
1.
e-frezzy says:
bohagon is the best rapper alive
October 2, 2007 at 6:29 am
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e-frezzy says:
bohagon is the best rapper alive
October 2, 2007 at 6:28 am
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keyera says:
hey man u look so good to me lookin at yo sexy lips i can ell you smoke and dey look gud
July 13, 2007 at 12:33 pm
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tye says:
WUZ UP BOHAGON
May 10, 2007 at 12:32 pm