SNOOP WALKS THE LINE BEHIND CASH
“Let’s face it. It’s Johnny cash. I mean… It’s Johnny Cash. It’s all you have to say.”
-- Mocean Worker, a member of the new Johnny Cash Remixed Project.
There are some icons too sacred to remix, remash, rehash. Johnny Cash is set rather high upon that golden pedestal. However, there is always the subversive power of iconoclasts and dogs. Not just any old dogs, but S-N-double O- P.
Due out October 14 on Compadre Records/Music World Music is Johnny Cash Remixed, with Snoop Dogg’s version of “I Walk the Line” as the centerpiece. The remix album also features Teddy Riley, DJ Quik, and Pete Rock tackling “Folsom Prison Blues”.
Question: What does a west coast g-funk rapper have in common with the late freight train-inspired country crooner? Surprisingly, quite a lot. Both won Grammy’s. Both are outlaws with an affinity for prisons and drugs. And when it comes down to it: both walk the line.
Snoop has had a long-time affair with country music. He sang the duet “My Medicine” with Willie Nelson, and dedicated the record to “[his] main man Johnny Cash – a real American gangsta.”
“If you take your time to listen to it, country music is very similar to rap,” Snoop told Billboard. “Johnny Cash is the one who stood out to me. I love his style, his swag, the songs he made.”
Cash’s son, John Carter Cash, gladly approved the remix project. “This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition while creating groundbreaking new music.”
Previews of the project can be seen here.
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