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How Shaboozey’s Country Spin on a 20-Year-Old Rap Song Became the Year’s Biggest Hit: ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’
Shaboozey tells how he turned a song that was a hit when he was 9 into the year's biggest smash, 'A Bar Song (Tipsy).'
To conjure a modern-day national anthem, Shaboozey — who, with Benson Boone, is Variety ‘s Hitmakers Newcomer of the Year — only had to blend hip-hop and country in a ludicrously catchy manner that appealed to widely different demographics. After playing a bunch of songs from the early aughts, they stumbled on J-Kwon’s 2004 debut, “Tipsy,” which came out when Shaboozey was 9 — the age when he fell in love with Southern hip-hop. “She saw what I was doing and knew that it was authentic.” The fact that “Spaghettii,” which also features country legend Linda Martell, nabbed a Grammy nomination — to go along with the five he earned on his own — is the cherry on top.
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