Now, with their longawaited atlantic records debut, watermelon, chicken, and gritz, nappy roots are ready to spread their unique sound and vision. Atlantic records a rare example of hiphop at the margins that made a commercial impact, watermelon, chicken, and gritz is the musical equivalent of outsider art. The multiplatinum album featured the hitsingles headz up, awnaw. The songs signature concept, verse, and chorus was written by r. The bluesy boom bap perfectly complements the lyrics blue collar, folksy vignettes.
Explicit version licensed to youtube by wmg on behalf of atlantic 0191. Rapid city, sd nappy roots take the main stage at hay camp for a nod to the dirty south. With all six members taking turns on the mic, nappy roots keeps a rapid pace up, swerving through the 17 tracks here with effortless energy. Theres not a lot of show in their songs that some of the present hiphop artists have in their lyrics. Nappy roots are an american hip hop sextet that originated in kentucky in 1995, best known for their hit 2002 single awnaw. The groups organically funky hiphop stylings blend serious lyrical science and dirty south grooves, notably on tracks like the ruminating lifes a risk and the blockrockin. Show all release groups instead, or show various artists release groups. Stille, the look that seals screwed up coupe deville, peep the vertical grill well killa cowboy pull the. Nappy roots majorlabel debut is a fastmoving affair, stockfull of sweet pop hooks and loaded down with an easy, goodtime feeling. Buy mp3 music online nappy roots watermelon, chicken and gritz. Discover video clips of recent music performances and more on mtv. Now, with their longawaited atlantic records debut, watermelon, chicken, and gritz, nappy roots are ready to spread their unique sound and vision from coast to coast. While the sound here is refreshing, the lyrics rarely stand out and after awhile some of the tracks tend to blur together.
Create an account help customer service mobile version affiliate program. Nappy roots began making music together at a local record shopcumstudio named ets music, and released their fulllength debut country fried cess in 1998. Steve flash juon aww naww, hell naww man, they done up and done it. It was released on february 26, 2002 via atlantic records. Their music can be categorized as alternative southern rap. One forty lyrics set it out lyrics sholiz lyrics slums lyrics start it over lyrics the lounge lyrics. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Rap group nappy roots to release 2 beers brewbound. Please check back for new nappy roots watermelon chicken and gritz music lyrics. The nappy roots creeped on a bigger come up than bone thugsnharmony and did it by slipping into the industry via south park.
Today nappy roots tours 150 days annually, owns a nappy roots clothing line, reaches thousands of social followers and more. The group formed when the members were students at western kentucky university. Watermelon, chicken and gritz explicit by nappy roots. When i say show, i mean excess of money, clothes, sex, and violence. The groups organically funky hiphop stylings blend serious lyrical science and dirty south grooves, notably on tracks like the ruminating lifes a risk and the blockrockin party anthem, ballin on a budget. Try disabling any ad blockers and refreshing this page. The members of the group met while studying at western kentucky university in bowling green, kentucky. Drawn to the groups distinctive twist on southern bounce, the major labels began flocking, and they eventually signed to atlantic.