Billboard reviewed the song “Old Town Road” and said that the song was not country enough and it was immediately removed off the charts. Lil Nas X’s hit song went viral and the original was removed and Billy Ray Cyrus featured on the remix of “Old Town Road”. Billy Ray Cyrus was questioning what make the song not a country song after listening to the hit song. It became a song that everyone made dance videos to on Tik-Tok and different social media apps by promoting. Publication did not believe that it did not have the qualities of being a country song. It caused plenty of debates on whether if it was a country song or not as far as the instrumental. It had a hip hop style to it, but it also had a country twist to it technically making it a country song to others. After releasing the remix, it is currently sitting at Number #15 on the BillBoard charts. Rumor has it that he could potentially be working on a song with Beyonce via tweet saying “ready to tell them”. This song is currently going viral at the moment stating that this is only the beginning for Lil Nas X and his music career. Country songs rarely hit the top 10 on the Billboard charts ever. “Old Town Road” began to climb to the charts on Spotify within the top 50 and in March ended up getting a record deal with Columbia. It is currently a sensation and a breakthrough for Lil Nas X after his song went viral. Lil Nas X has gone through many depressions throughout his music as far as being an artist. The “Old Town Road” rapper was dealing with family issues and also dropped out of school six months ago to create a rap career of his own. Throughout the song “Old Town Road” the artist talks about how he did not wish to continue school and had to keep pushing his music in order to get any recognition. He was mentioning that he wanted to “ride till he can’t no more” trying to make a breakthrough within the music industry. He was happy being on the Billboards alone because that was such an accomplishment for him. He started getting attention by putting music in funny memes and the cowboy challenge to promote his music. Lil Nas X is a new country hip-hop artist known to the world now and continues to do what he does best.
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