It'd be interesting to see if Snoop chooses Cocaine Blues, Folsom Prison Blues or Don't Take Your Guns to Town. I've never thought of Cash being urban music, but this almost makes sense.

/I own most if not all of Johnny Cash's music.
//I do not own any Snoop Dogg.

Gotta be Folsom Prison.

Snoop, don't listen to the kids..."Hurt" is not a Johnny Cash song and it won't translate well, see? (new window)



thanks Gizoogle!

Ya know, I can't stand most rap, especially this tard, but this I would actually like to hear.

Why not, Johnny Cash started rap music

I'd think that Wanted Man would give him a lot of room to add his own touch while still being blessed by the awesomeness of TEH MAN IN BLACK.

Don't take yo' guns to town, biznatch

Or...you may want to consider trying to write your own songs.

Man in Black refers to his suit Snoop

Cue the Johnny Cash middle finger pic.

I'd like him to do A Boy Named Sue wearing a Wendy's wig.

hyuck hyuck. rap? they's done fergot the c in thar. betcha ain't herd-a that one befoar.

I'm pretty sure Johnny Cash wasn't a rapper.

I think that if that movie Walk the Line had never been made nobody like Snoop would even know who Cash was. Now I have infinite respect for Cash, his music, and his troubled lifestyle; I even liked the movie. He was the real deal, he lived his lyrics and he was one of the quintessential rockstars before that term even meant anything...

Snoop Dogg on the other hand is a poser, and a greedy do-anything for the next million capitalist. He probably saw the movie having never heard a note of Cash, he liked the image of Cash portrayed in that movie, and he decided he could try and use Cash's music to continue the "I'm a gansta from the hood" charade. It's so transparent it's laughable.

I would think that he could do a lot worse. If you start with a decent backing track, at least part of the song could be tollerable. I think i would listen to this track when it comes out, granted I would pirate it, never pay for it... damn it feels good to be a pirate...

i love cash, and most rap/pers i cant stand long enough to puke to. but i do like one or two songs that snoop dogg "sings", his rendition of the doors "riders in the storm" was prety cool. but i feel him taking a song from johnny cash and putting his "spin" on it, i think i just might be sick. NO one should attempt to cover a Cash song. it always ends up in disapointment and embarassment. Hint Hint LIVE.. you horrible horrible bastards

I'd like to see him do a rap version of "the one on right is the one on the left".

Link (new window)

/hey, the song ends up in a brawl, ain't that keeping it real enough for ya?

Millzners: Snoop Dogg on the other hand is a poser, and a greedy do-anything for the next million capitalist. He probably saw the movie having never heard a note of Cash, he liked the image of Cash portrayed in that movie, and he decided he could try and use Cash's music to continue the "I'm a gansta from the hood" charade. It's so transparent it's laughable.

On the contrary, Snoop Dogg is practically the first cross-over gangsta rapper. What I mean is, he's probably the only gangsta rapper that many suburban white parents wouldn't mind that much hanging out with their kids. He's exactly the guy who should try something like this.

Or, you know, you could try to be creative, and make your own farking song.


I guess stealing is just easier than learning how to play an instrument, or learn how to write poetic music.

deevo: Jah didn't kill Johnny, he had a date with death.

Sage

Johnny Cash, the Original Gangsta Rapper.

He sung songs about:
- shooting people
- drinking too much
- cheating on your wife
- beating up your wife
- going to prison

/

Cadillac_Reaper: i love cash, and most rap/pers i cant stand long enough to puke to. but i do like one or two songs that snoop dogg "sings", his rendition of the doors "riders in the storm" was prety cool. but i feel him taking a song from johnny cash and putting his "spin" on it, i think i just might be sick. NO one should attempt to cover a Cash song. it always ends up in disapointment and embarassment. Hint Hint LIVE.. you horrible horrible bastards


I beg to differ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JegJYlZ7UQE

Millzners: I think that if that movie Walk the Line had never been made nobody like Snoop would even know who Cash was. Now I have infinite respect for Cash, his music, and his troubled lifestyle; I even liked the movie. He was the real deal, he lived his lyrics and he was one of the quintessential rockstars before that term even meant anything...

Snoop Dogg on the other hand is a poser, and a greedy do-anything for the next million capitalist. He probably saw the movie having never heard a note of Cash, he liked the image of Cash portrayed in that movie, and he decided he could try and use Cash's music to continue the "I'm a gansta from the hood" charade. It's so transparent it's laughable.


Yea, because it's not like Snoop Dogg was one of the pioneers of "gansta rap", as well as, oh, I don't know, been popular for OVER A DECADE.

/I don't even like rap!

I'm 99.9% sure Johnny Cash would give Snoop his blessing on this. The guy did record with Rick Rubin, ya know.

Millzners: I think that if that movie Walk the Line had never been made nobody like Snoop would even know who Cash was. Now I have infinite respect for Cash, his music, and his troubled lifestyle; I even liked the movie. He was the real deal, he lived his lyrics and he was one of the quintessential rockstars before that term even meant anything...

Snoop Dogg on the other hand is a poser, and a greedy do-anything for the next million capitalist. He probably saw the movie having never heard a note of Cash, he liked the image of Cash portrayed in that movie, and he decided he could try and use Cash's music to continue the "I'm a gansta from the hood" charade. It's so transparent it's laughable.

How do you know when Snoop started listening to Cash. You have no idea you are just making generalizations. You act like Johnny Cash wasnt a figure in pop culture before the movie came out. You dont give people enough credit

Another example of the black man ripping off the white man's music. First it was Hendrix ripping off Dylan...

"Ive been everywhere" is a rap gosh darnit!

He was the real deal, he lived his lyrics

Uh..no, he didn't. I'm pretty sure Cash never shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, and he never went to prison for any substantial amount of time.

Or, you know, you could try to be creative, and make your own farking song.


I guess stealing is just easier than learning how to play an instrument, or learn how to write poetic music.

Sampling has been a huge part of hip-hop since the 70s, and you're still complaining about it?

Face it, taking somebody else's work and transforming it and putting your own spin on it is a completely legitimate form of artistic expression. If you don't believe me, listen to some DJ Shadow or Girl Talk or The Avalanches before you say something stupid again.

Gunny Highway: Millzners: I think that if that movie Walk the Line had never been made nobody like Snoop would even know who Cash was. Now I have infinite respect for Cash, his music, and his troubled lifestyle; I even liked the movie. He was the real deal, he lived his lyrics and he was one of the quintessential rockstars before that term even meant anything...

Snoop Dogg on the other hand is a poser, and a greedy do-anything for the next million capitalist. He probably saw the movie having never heard a note of Cash, he liked the image of Cash portrayed in that movie, and he decided he could try and use Cash's music to continue the "I'm a gansta from the hood" charade. It's so transparent it's laughable.

How do you know when Snoop started listening to Cash. You have no idea you are just making generalizations. You act like Johnny Cash wasnt a figure in pop culture before the movie came out. You dont give people enough credit

Not to mention the fact that lots of rappers listen to a wide variety of music looking for new sounds to influence them (or samples to steal - either way, they're listening).

Riley Diefenbach: Johnny Cash, the Original Gangsta Rapper.

He sung songs about:
- shooting people
- drinking too much
- cheating on your wife
- beating up your wife
- going to prison


you havent listened to much old country music have you?.. ALL of it is about that. george jones, hank williams, waylon jennings,marty robbins,etc etc....

its more like Gangsta Rap: Urbanized Country Music (minus the music part...unless you count the sampled p-funk)

A young gangsta named Snoop
Grew restless on the farm
A "G" filled with wanderlust
Who really meant no harm
He changed his clothes and shined his bling
And corn-rowed his dark hair down
And his mother cried as he walked out;

"Don't take your guns to town, son
Leave your guns at home, Snoop
Don't take your guns to town."

He sang a song as on he rode,
His guns hung at his hips
He rode into a cattle town,
A smile upon his lips
He stopped and walked into a bar and laid his money down
But his mother's words echoed again;

"Don't take your guns to town, son
Leave your guns at home, Snoop
Don't take your guns to town."

He drank his first Cristal then to calm his shaking hand
And tried to tell himself at last he had become a man
A wanna-be-G at his side began to laugh him down
And he heard again his mother's words;

"Don't take your guns to town, son
Leave your guns at home, Snoop
Don't take your guns to town."

Bill was raged and Snoop Dogg reached for his gun to draw
But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw
As Snoop Dog fell to the floor the crowd all gathered 'round
And wondered at his final words;

"Don't take your guns to town, son
Leave your guns at home, Snoop
Don't take your guns to town."

Farkomatic: I'd like him to do A Boy Named Sue wearing a Wendy's wig.

Boy Named Snoop?

I shot a nubian in Compton just to watch him die

(Cash song) A Boy Named Sue sounds gangster."


Too bad Shel Silverstein wrote it. I really wouldn't hold Snoop Dogg to knowing that, though. Sadly.

Reading the comments in here reminds me of arguing with idiots over endless late-night cups of coffee when I was in college 20 years ago. Nobody knows what they're talking about, but they're passionate in their ignorance.

mekkab: I'd think that Wanted Man would give him a lot of room to add his own touch while still being blessed by the awesomeness of TEH MAN IN BLACK Bob Dylan.

Still a good choice though. The only other ones I could think of that wouldn't be laughably bad are Cocaine Blues or Delia's Gone.

LemSkroob: Or, you know, you could try to be creative, and make your own farking song.

Man, you sure burned him. It's a good thing he hasn't spent the last 15 years releasing albums he wrote himself or you'd look like a dumb douchebag.

Millzners: He probably saw the movie having never heard a note of Cash, he liked the image of Cash portrayed in that movie, and he decided he could try and use Cash's music to continue the "I'm a gansta from the hood" charade. It's so transparent it's laughable.

I've loved Johnny Cash all my life and I've never seen Walk The Line, but I had to deal with people thinking that's how I learned about him. Stupid people get a lot of things wrong, is essentially what I'm saying.

bubba2233: I'm pretty sure Johnny Cash wasn't a rapper.

Actually he was. He did a lot of spoken word / poetry type stuff.

Wyclef covered a Cash song at a tribute concert...

Link

Not too bad in my book.

flamebroiledchicken: Sampling has been a huge part of hip-hop since the 70s

smokinjayz: Yea, because it's not like Snoop Dogg was one of the pioneers of "gansta rap", as well as, oh, I don't know, been popular for OVER A DECADE.

/I don't even like rap!

Actually I think Dr. Dre was a 'pioneer' of gansta rap and Snoop was his poster boy for a while. What did Snoop do to pioneer anything? He simply did vocals over Dr. Dre's productions/beats and most of his lyrics and stlye are spin-offs from earlier P-Funk and other 70's R&B.

Snoop may be an excellent if not derivative vocalist, but he is definately no pioneer.

Gunny Highway: How do you know when Snoop started listening to Cash. You have no idea you are just making generalizations. You act like Johnny Cash wasnt a figure in pop culture before the movie came out. You dont give people enough credit

You're right I'm guessing and I have no real idea. My point is that we're talking about someone who's cultivated an image and is working tirelessly to refine that image for further commercial success -- this angle makes a lot more sense than some 'artistic vision' that he has.

Now if Snoop had some balls he would cover a Tom Waits song, something from the Rain Dogs era would be interesting...

Cadillac_Reaper: NO one should attempt to cover a Cash song. it always ends up in disapointment and embarassment.
knoxvelour: I beg to differ http://youtube.com/watch?v=JegJYlZ7UQE

Well that kinda sucked, but this does not (new window)

Fark you Snoop Dog. What's wrong, isn't da hood providing enough material for ya? If Cash was alive today, he'd kick your scrawny ass all over Watts. Fo' shizzle!


Cadillac_Reaper: NO one should attempt to cover a Cash song.

Except Kermit the Frog.

/yes, I know it's a Cash cover of a NiN song.
//Even Trent Reznor has said the song "wasn't really his anymore."

I greatly dislike most rap music, but I listen to Snoop Dogg almost every day. Doggystyle was one of the best albums of the 90s.

Well I guess since we've been co-opting "black" music for decades, maybe more, it's kinda natural that their gonna hit back and steal from one of, if not the greatest icon from the whitest music out there.

/Anything Country before the 70's is the original punk rock
//Need proof, check Hank Williams Sr. Deceased in the back of his chauffeured Cadillac hopped up on painkillers and drunk on some JD

Done with a slight amount of reverence, it should be fine. As pointed out, almost any of the subject matter could be made relevant to the average urban hip hop enthusiast. And, it could have been worse.

Peediddy Puffdaddy whatever the fark could have had this idea instead of that pile of crap he took all over Led Zeppelin's Kashmir

masterskip: could have had this idea instead of that pile of crap he took all over Led Zeppelin's Kashmir

you know that Jimmy Page rerecorded the Kashmir hook for him? Yes, he was in on it. Just like Sting was in on the sampling he did of Every Breath You Take. Even performed the song with him.

WhyteRaven74 you know that Jimmy Page rerecorded the Kashmir hook for him? Yes, he was in on it. Just like Sting was in on the sampling he did of Every Breath You Take. Even performed the song with him.


Yeah, I saw them (pdaddy & Jimmy Page)do it (Come Wit Me?)live, was it SNL? (don't remember). It still sucked, even with Jimmy Page. And Sting should be flogged for basically agreeing to be Peedaddies backup singer. If the fat guy hadn't died, I'm sure he would have declined.

dougfm: Cadillac_Reaper: NO one should attempt to cover a Cash song. it always ends up in disapointment and embarassment.
knoxvelour: I beg to differ http://youtube.com/watch?v=JegJYlZ7UQE

Well that kinda sucked, but this does not (new window)

ahh see, I think Social Distortion sucks so it just comes down to personal preference in this case