Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 46/@comment-3137688-20140803133931/@comment-24328089-20140803144132

How do you feel about Tupac vs Johnny Cash? Tupac being the most legendary Hip-Hop/Rap artist and Cash being the most legendary Country artist.

Country and Rap were pretty much made to be opposites. One is urban (radio stations that cater to Hip-Hop are categorized as "Urban") the other is Country (literally just a synonym for rural). And of course rural and urban are opposites.

Hip-Hop is likely the most vulgar genre. Far more than half of the singles of the genre are labeled "Explicit" by iTunes. Whereas it is very rare to find any cursing at all in any country song, although Cash doesn't really exemplify that :P

Also, Country artists are almost all White whereas most Hip-Hop artists are still mostly Black (there is a lot more racial diversity in Hip-Hop than in Country but more gender diversity in Country than in Hip-Hop)

All of these are reasons I see as why Hip-Hop vs Country is a great suggestion same as Dubstep vs Classical (which eventually became Skrillex vs Mozart). I think the best people to represent the two genres are Johnny Cash and Tupac. Eminem would be ok, but like you said, he is still modern whereas Tupac and Cash are both from the past and pretty much represent each genre.

That would leave Eminem to battle Bach.