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Meet Kidd G, Country Musicâs Next Emo-Rap Star
A 17-year-old from a small Georgia town built an audience as a rapper on TikTok and SoundCloud before pivoting to country music and inching his way into a notoriously cloistered industry.
The country music up-and-comer Kidd G got his start in an entirely different genre (hip-hop), via a platform the industry is just learning to embrace (TikTok).Credit.Peyton Fulford for The New York Times
Jan. 14, 2021
Kidd G was 11 years old when his older brother, Dustin, got his first car. Dustin wasnât quite old enough to drive it yet, but he could use it to listen to music, and he and his younger brother would sit in the front seat for hours, soaking in Rae Sremmurd, Young Thug, Chance the Rapper. Before long, Kidd G was teaching himself to freestyle.