Ain't Going To Heaven

Album: American Music (2015)

Songfacts®:

  • Gangstagrass banjo player and vocalist Dan Whitener calls this song a "posse track," meaning it was written as a collective song with the rest of Gangstagrass. Whitener came up with the basic idea and skeleton of the song and is credited as songwriter, but everyone contributed lyrics and ideas to the final product.
  • The album American Music has 14 tracks with different MCs rapping on 13 of them, and then all the MCs coming together for "Ain't Goin' To Heaven When I Die." Whitener also raps on this album, which is unusual for him. He was encouraged to do it by the rest of the band.
  • "Ain't Goin' to Heaven When I Die" is an outlaw song. Fitting in with bluegrass and hip-hop tradition, it's all meant in good fun. Each MC takes turns talking about "smoking spliffs" in the apocalypse, shooting dice, drinking Jack, etc.

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