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Shaboozey has long been inspired by the romantic notion of the outlaw: “The guy who’s standing against a whole bunch of folks and it’s like, ‘We’re going to take them down.’ Yeah, you can try!” the musician tells Apple Music’s Kelleigh Bannen. The obsession is less quaint than it sound. Having pored through old western film, dime-store pulp novel, and gunslinger ballads à la Marty Robbin, the Virginia native noticed that old-school cowboy culture and hip-hop share a preoccupation with all things American renegade. The conversation around country music’s Black roots will sound familiar to anyone who tuned in to Beyoncé’s <i>COWBOY CARTER</i>, which featured Shaboozey on two track. (“Beyoncé’s been such a big part of being Black in America,” he said, still in awe of the opportunity. “At every point in our live, she has had some sort of cultural impact.”) But the 29-year-old singer/rapper has been staking his territory in the space between hip-hop and country for a decade, redefining what it means to be a modern country star. .

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