{"id":11442,"date":"2019-10-10T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=11442"},"modified":"2019-10-10T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T08:15:15","slug":"lil-nas-x-says-old-town-road-is-a-country-spin-on-classical-rap-tropes-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/10\/10\/lil-nas-x-says-old-town-road-is-a-country-spin-on-classical-rap-tropes-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X Says &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; Is a &#8216;Country Spin On Classical Rap Tropes&#8217;: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__body js-fitvids-content\">\n<p>Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road\u201d spent a whopping 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, breaking the previous reign as longest-running No. 1 held by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber\u2019s &#8220;Despacito&#8221; and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men&#8217;s &#8220;One Sweet Day.&#8221; But just how did Lil Nas X\u2019s hit song come together? In the latest episode of \u201cHow It Went Down,\u201d he explains how a summer home from college resulted in the\u00a0groundbreaking mash-up of hip-hop, country and \u201cfunny meme culture&#8221; that we know today.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Nas X tells <em>Billboard<\/em> that the summer he wrote \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d he was back from his first year of college.\u00a0While he was supposed to be retaking a math class during his break, he decided not to, and instead spent the months staying at his sister\u2019s house and making music.<\/p>\n<p>While Lil Nas X started out making a few songs for Twitter that summer, once he realized that people were responding well to them, he decided that he wanted to expand on that skill.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, though, Lil Nas X explains that his\u00a0sister became \u201cfed up\u201d with him staying with her, leaving him questioning what his next move was &#8212; a sentiment reflected in \u201cOld Town Road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt kind of in a way relates to my situation of what I wanted to do at the moment, which is just run away from life in a way,\u201d he confesses, referring to the line, \u201cI&#8217;m gonna take my horse to the old town road\/ I&#8217;m gonna ride till I can&#8217;t no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lil Nas X adds that with the song, he wanted to bring together \u201cfunny meme culture\u201d with hip-hip and country music. \u201cLet&#8217;s put all that into one, ball it up,\u201d he recalls thinking. \u201cLet&#8217;s make sure this song is short, to the point. And it sounds amazing, but it&#8217;s also funny\u2026 It&#8217;s like a country spin on classical rap tropes within this generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also reveals that he spent a month or so swapping lyrics in and out before he put the final song together. Then four or five months after the song was finished, on the day it topped the Hot 100, Billy Ray Cyrus joined him in the studio for the remix. \u201cHe hopped on it and killed it,\u201d says Lil Nas X. \u201cYou know, that&#8217;s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full video interview with Lil Nas X above.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2Ov5jzm3j8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2Ov5jzm3j8\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pi-list-item-blocks item-blocks\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta-bottom\">\n<p>source:billboard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road\u201d spent a whopping 19 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart, breaking the previous reign as longest-running No. 1 held by Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber\u2019s &#8220;Despacito&#8221; and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men&#8217;s &#8220;One Sweet Day.&#8221; But just how did Lil Nas X\u2019s hit song come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[10282,2913,3513,2915,920,9883,11493,8923,7141,9515,11932,2408,2914,3130,12309,5058,11973,9028,7333,5350,8033,10943,10353],"class_list":["post-11442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billboard","tag-billy-ray-cyrus","tag-culture","tag-daddy-yankee-and-justin-biebers-despacito-and-mariah-carey-and-boyz-ii-mens","tag-episode","tag-fed","tag-interview","tag-justin","tag-justin-bieber","tag-killed","tag-lil-nas","tag-lil-nas-x","tag-luis-fonsi","tag-mariah-carey","tag-men","tag-music","tag-one","tag-rap","tag-summer","tag-twitter","tag-video","tag-watch","tag-x"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}