Lil Nas X is the stage name of 19-year-old Montero Lamar Hill (he turns 20 tomorrow “having the best birthday month of my life,” he tweeted yesterday), a black Atlantan musician/internet personality who has been uploading music to SoundCloud for the past year or so. Lil Nas X has no ties to the greater Nashville music campus in any capacity.Īt least that last part is true. He’s not signed to a country label, and has no affiliation to the country industry whatsoever. Furthermore, Lil Nas X is not professing to be a country artist. Including Wild West signifiers or references to horses in no way qualifies a rap song with a trap beat as country. According to Trigger, though, “Old Town Road” was “basically a 1:53 joke.” He went on, incensed that the viral ditty was taking valuable chart space from “actual songs, country or otherwise”: 19 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, surrounded by tracks from reigning country stars like Luke Bryan, Kelsea Ballerini, and Florida Georgia Line. On March 23, the proprietor of the blog -Kyle Coroneos, who writes under the pen name “Trigger”-published an op-ed titled “Billboard Must Remove Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ From Country Chart.” A week prior, the catchy viral hit-a cartoony fusion of exaggerated twang and trap beats that has been in my head approximately 102 percent of the time since I first heard it-had debuted at no.
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