Kentucky Mud. Listening Notes Booklet by Natalie Weiner. Catalog Number: VMP-RT-LP Color: Brown Format: LP UPC: 81227890001 ''In spite of systemic challenges, there is some glory in Nappy Roots' humble lot--at least, as they depict it. Anthems like ''Country Boyz,'' the down and dirty ''Slums,'' and ''Kentucky Mud'' show a kind of refreshing solidarity with people who might not have ever heard themselves in hip-hop before. That was the Nappy movement, as its creators saw it: finding the joy and beauty, where one could, in an unfair system instead of trying to cover it up. Taking qualities and status perceived as undesirable--''nappiness,'' rural living, being part of the working poor--and finding within them a sense of community and appeal without masking all the things that make them so awful.