Lil Nas x laments he didn’t have Beyoncé’s success doing country music
Lil Nas X Laments He Wasn’t 'Able To Experience' Beyoncé's Country Music Success https://t.co/aakM4hp9GR
- HuffPost (@HuffPost) May 23, 2024
During a recent BBC interview, the rapper was asked about Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ’Em,” the first song performed by a Black female artist to hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart, saying he was “happy” for her, adding, “But I wish this would have happened for me. I wasn’t even able to experience this.”
This regarding “old town road”, that despite the song’s allusions to country and cowboy imagery, and a high-profile remix featuring country legend Billy Ray Cyrus, Billboard disqualified it from the Hot Country Songs chart, telling Rolling Stone “it does not embrace enough elements of today’s country music to chart in its current version.”
With some music critics pointing out this reinforced perception of country as a conservative-leaning genre, slow to include artists of color and LGBTQ+.
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