Y’all really thought we weren’t going to cover this?
There are a few artists in the mainstream country realm who are really popping, but none as unique and consistently surprising as HARDY. He dropped his new album, Quit!!, on July 12th, featuring mostly tunes on the heavy side, which are drawing a whole new audience from the rock genre. This leads to some cool features that merge HARDY’s country roots with some edge. On his last record, the mockingbird & THE CROW, which is where he first showed off his heavier side, he had A Day to Remember’s Jeremy McKinnon feature on the hard-hitting RADIO SONG. On Quit!!, Chad Smith beat the skins on the third track, GOOD GIRL PHASE.
There is one song on this album, though, that stood out to me like a red cap.
Limp Bizkit’s own Fred Durst hopped on the track, SOUL4SALE. While we love the intense, screaming Fred Durst, you must also appreciate his rhymes – that is what gets delivered here. SOUL4SALE is a mellow tune that crescendos as it nears the end. The overall premise here is a take on the timeless “selling your soul to the devil” phrase. You can dissect the lyrics yourself, but it is cool to see the songwriting from HARDY mesh with Durst’s rapping, which is typical Fred – serious, yet humorous when it needs to be. I mean, you can’t not giggle at “I got that country Bizkit rhymin’”.
Whether you like the song or not is up to you, but with the recent Limp Bizkit resurgence in the past couple years, it will be cool to see more Durst or full band features on other artists’ releases, and hopefully some more music coming from the band itself.
Go give HARDY’s SOUL4SALE a listen now!