5/27/2023 0 Comments Lil nas x is for country book![]() ![]() The gravity of this discrimination really hits home when you consider that country is the biggest radio format in the US, favoured by 15% of total listeners (compared to the 10.6% who tune into news and 8% who listen to Top 40 stations). Billboard officials denied that, but Lil Nas X’s ban emblematises what the New York Times called “country music’s inclusion problem” and the genre’s tendency to shut out women and people of colour. Rapper Ski Mask the Slump God was one of many who wondered whether “discrimination” played into Old Town Road getting dropped from the chart. By comparison, more than half of the Hot 100’s year-end songs featured black artists. Billboard’s 2018 year-end Hot Country Songs 100 featured just five lead songs by artists of colour – and three of those were by breakout biracial star Kane Brown. And while yeehaw is currently dominant in hip-hop, pop and indie alike, its presence – and the case of Lil Nas X – has ignited debate about whether non-white artists will ever be fully accepted in the Nashville scene. Yet the wheels of mainstream country move slowly. “I think people are just ready for something different, a change within the world.” ![]() ![]() “ is just embracing what’s not cool or trendy,” he says. Naturally, Lil Nas X was “disappointed” by his exclusion from the country charts, but understands that the song’s existence signals a transition. ![]()
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