When Hip Hop Meets Country

Darius Rucker wants to do a hip hop mashup.

Darius Rucker's Ready to Turn Up - Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer Darius Rucker just released his fourth solo country album, Southern Style, and revealed to Billboard that there's still one thing in music he hasn't accomplished. "I don't have much left on my bucket list. One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that. [I want to work with] somebody that's had a career; I get where they're coming from, they get where I'm coming from. Let's do something cool."While Darius awaits the call to rock the mic, let's take a look at a few occasions when country and hip hop stars caused wreck together.(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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Darius Rucker's Ready to Turn Up - Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer Darius Rucker just released his fourth solo country album, Southern Style, and revealed to Billboard that there's still one thing in music he hasn't accomplished. "I don't have much left on my bucket list. One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that. [I want to work with] somebody that's had a career; I get where they're coming from, they get where I'm coming from. Let's do something cool."While Darius awaits the call to rock the mic, let's take a look at a few occasions when country and hip hop stars caused wreck together.(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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Ll Cool J and Brad Paisley  - LL Cool J and country star Brad Paisley came together in 2013 and recorded the cut "Accidental Racist." (Photo: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

Jason Aldean/Ludacris, "Dirt Road Anthem" - Noticing a pattern here? A country star and a rap star collaborate, and it sucks. Now only if someone would tell that to Nelly. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Jason Aldean, "Dirt Road Anthem" feat. Ludacris - Country leading man Jason Aldean tapped Ludacris to spit a verse on a remix to his 2011 song "Dirt Road Anthem." The pair even performed the track on stage at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville. Jason returned the favor and joined the Word of Mouf MC on "Burning Bridges" off his Ludaversal album. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

T-Pain and Taylor Swift - Unlikely dynamic duo T-Pain and Taylor Swift opened the 2009 CMT Awards with a pre-taped parody video called "Thug Story," which featured the teen country singer rapping awfully while T-Pain harmonized on the hook. (Photo: Big Machine Records)

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T-Pain and Taylor Swift - Unlikely dynamic duo T-Pain and Taylor Swift opened the 2009 CMT Awards with a pre-taped parody video called "Thug Story," which featured the teen country singer rapping awfully while T-Pain harmonized on the hook. (Photo: Big Machine Records)

Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson - Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson, who share a common interest in the botanical arts, have collaborated on three tracks. It should come as no surprise that two out of the three songs have pretty self-explanatory titles: "My Medicine," "Superman" and "Roll Me Up." (Photos from left: Mark Davis/Getty Images, Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

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Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson - Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson, who share a common interest in the botanical arts, have collaborated on three tracks. It should come as no surprise that two out of the three songs have pretty self-explanatory titles: "My Medicine," "Superman" and "Roll Me Up." (Photos from left: Mark Davis/Getty Images, Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

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Wyclef Jean's "Kenny Rogers - Pharoahe Monch Dub Plate" - On his 2000 album The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, Wyclef bizarrely combined Kenny Roger's country standard "The Gambler" with Pharaohe Monche's backpack classic "Simon Says." (Photos from left: Rick Diamond/Getty Images, John Ricard/BET)

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Wyclef Jean's "Kenny Rogers - Pharoahe Monch Dub Plate" - On his 2000 album The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, Wyclef bizarrely combined Kenny Roger's country standard "The Gambler" with Pharaohe Monche's backpack classic "Simon Says." (Photos from left: Rick Diamond/Getty Images, John Ricard/BET)

Coolio, "The Hustler" feat. Kenny Rogers - In 1998, two years before Wyclef's strange mashup, Coolio tapped Kenny Rogers to duet on "The Hustler," a sequal of sorts to "The Gambler." (Photos from left: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

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Coolio, "The Hustler" feat. Kenny Rogers - In 1998, two years before Wyclef's strange mashup, Coolio tapped Kenny Rogers to duet on "The Hustler," a sequal of sorts to "The Gambler." (Photos from left: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj, "Superbass" - Two years ago in Los Angeles, Taylor Swift invited Nicki Minaj onstage to perform the latter's hit "Super Bass" as a duet. (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj, "Superbass" - Two years ago in Los Angeles, Taylor Swift invited Nicki Minaj onstage to perform the latter's hit "Super Bass" as a duet. (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift and Nelly - Taylor Swift did it again with Nelly, bringing him out on stage in 2013 in St. Louis to perform his hit "Hey Porsche" and in 2011 to rock "Just a Dream" in Houston. (Photos from left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Frederick Breedon IV/Getty Images for ACM)

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Taylor Swift and Nelly - Taylor Swift did it again with Nelly, bringing him out on stage in 2013 in St. Louis to perform his hit "Hey Porsche" and in 2011 to rock "Just a Dream" in Houston. (Photos from left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Frederick Breedon IV/Getty Images for ACM)

Colt Ford, "Ride On, Ride Out" - Country singer-rapper Colt Ford sought out the legendary DMC to appear on his 2010 song "Ride On, Ride Out." (Photos from left: Drew Gurian/Invision/AP, Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

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Colt Ford, "Ride On, Ride Out" - Country singer-rapper Colt Ford sought out the legendary DMC to appear on his 2010 song "Ride On, Ride Out." (Photos from left: Drew Gurian/Invision/AP, Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

B.o.B., "Both of Us" feat. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift might be country's biggest rap fan. She also sang the hook on B.o.B.'s poppy 2012 single "Both of Us." (Photo: Atlantic Records)

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B.o.B., "Both of Us" feat. Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift might be country's biggest rap fan. She also sang the hook on B.o.B.'s poppy 2012 single "Both of Us." (Photo: Atlantic Records)