‘Old Town Road’
“Old Town Road” is a curious hybrid of country and trap in which Lil Nas X uses the popular half-sung-half-rapped wave flow with an over-the-top drawl. It blew up on both the hip-hop charts and country charts. Then Billboard removed it from the country charts, claiming it wasn’t country. For our money, it absolutely is a hybrid of the two genres, and Billboard’s move is questionable at best, and probably racist. None other than Billy Ray Cyrus co-signed Lil Nas X’s iconoclasm by appearing on the remix.