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Cowboy Troy Country · 2005 I Play Chicken With the Train (feat. Big & Rich) 1 3:16 April 12, 2005 1 Song, 3 Minutes ℗ 2005 Warner Records Inc. Music VideosMore by Cowboy TroyFeatured OnYou Might Also LikeCowboy Troy, 2005, photographed by Angie Ambrosio, courtesy of a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. Playing Chicken With the Train: Cowboy Troy’s Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West by Adam Gussow "'My belt buckle is my bling-bling. It's just going to keep getting bigger.'" There was no necessary reason why Cowboy Troy’s country-rap single, “I Play Chicken With the Train,” should have caused such an uproar among country music fans when it was released in the spring of 2005. The song itself is a sonic Rorschach test: not so singular a curiosity as many might think, but still a challenge to what passes for common knowledge in the music business. It is animated by a sound and a lyric stance that might strike us, in a receptive mood, as uncanny—at once unfamiliar, a half-and-half blend of two musical idioms that rarely find themselves so jarringly conflated, and strangely familiar, as though the song has distilled the sound of ten-year-old boys filled with limitless bravado, jumping up and down and hollering into the summer afternoon. Compared with other country-rap hybrids, “I Play Chicken With the Train” contains surprisingly few sonic signifiers of hip-hop: no breakbeats, no samples, no drum machines, no scratching. The full burden of audible blackness is carried by Cowboy Troy’s decidedly old-school rap, with its square phrasing, tame syncopations, and echoes of Run-DMC. One hears white voices framing, doubling, responding to, supporting, that black voice; simultaneously, one senses that somebody has torn down the wall that is supposed to demarcate firmly the boundary between twanging redneck euphoria—the lynch-mob’s fiddle-driven rebel yell—and rap’s exaggerated self-projections of urban black masculinity. RELATED CONTENTSkip to main content I Play Chicken With The Train by Cowboy Troy (Featuring Big & Rich) on Amazon Music - Amazon.comYour Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. To enjoy Prime Music, go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.com (US). Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. VideosHelp others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Upload video Customer reviewsTop reviews from the United StatesThere was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2016 Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2012 I love to listen to this song in my car when I'm driving.It's one of those songs that you catch yourself singing out loud. Cowboy Troy Discography Browser
I Play Chicken with the Train Album InformationRelease DateApril 12, 2005 Duration03:19 GenreCountry Rap StylesPop-Rap Contemporary Country Submit CorrectionsAlbum MoodsSilly Celebratory Energetic Fun Rousing Rowdy Boisterous Confident Playful Slick Whimsical Carefree |