Did you know one of the biggest country songs ever was made by an artist who started out as a rapper?

Did you know one of the biggest country songs ever was made by an artist who started out as a rapper? In fact, in his Amazon Music Songline episode, he explained something crazy about how all this came together. Because when he met his producer Sean Cook over 5 years ago, one of their first ideas was. Imagine if like Jay-Z rapped over like a Lumineers instrumental. What would that sound like? And that one idea led to their first song together, but a few years later, it led to them making A Bar Song. Because A Bar Song takes one of the most recognizable hooks from J-Kwon's Tipsy, a rap song that people already knew, and turns it into something that feels completely at home in country music. I think that's what makes Shaboozey such an interesting artist, because he doesn't treat genres like separate boxes. In fact, he takes things that normally live in completely different worlds and figures out how to make them belong together. And that's also why seeing him perform these songs on Amazon Music's Songline series is so interesting, because you get to hear all these pieces a lot more clearly. And for Shaboozey, that seems to be the whole point, because he didn't get here by choosing one world, he built his own. And A Bar Song was just the moment the rest of the world finally heard what he had been building all along.