Throwback to the Time Billy Ray Cyrus Rapped ‘Achy Breaky Heart’
Billy Ray Cyrus made an out of this world remake of his 1992 hit "Achy Breaky Heart" with the rap version featuring Buck 22.
When Billy Ray Cyrus released “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992 it took his career to new heights. When he re-released the hit in 2014, it took him into a different direction – a short lived rap career.
Rap artist Buck 22 and Cyrus teamed up three years ago, along with a guest appearance from Larry King, to release the rap version of “Achy Breaky Heart,” and it was well, interesting, to say the least.
Along with the added EDM beat, came an out of this world video. Literally out of this world, the basis was Cyrus and Buck 22 were on an alien spaceship after King warned viewers of an “unidentified object” hauling toward the earth. The video, which is NSFW, features scantily clad female aliens twerking next to a guitar-playing Cyrus and a line-dancing Buck 22.
In the song, Buck 22 raps the verses, and throws in a reference to Cyrus’ daughter Miley, as Cyrus chimes in to sing the iconic chorus. It might not be the most conventional project ever put out, but what of Cyrus’ really is?
“I asked [Billy Ray Cyrus] if he would mind if I could take a crack at remaking ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ and he looked at me for a moment, and said ‘lots of people have tried already, but go for it.’ He didn’t have a clue that I had already gone into the lab and cooked up a demo of what I thought would be a fun EDM/hip-hop styled version, which at the time only had a sample from the original of his voice,” Buck 22 told Rolling Stone. “He liked what he heard and, weeks later, arrived at the session to record this track.”
In another attempt to remind country fans of “Achy Breaky Heart,” Cyrus released a re-recorded version of the hit this past April along with announcing that beginning August of 2017 he will officially be dropping “Billy Ray” from his name.
