OT Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Official Movie) ft. Billy Ray Cyrus

Those of you saying this is Rap or Hip Hop are only saying that because he's BLACK.

He doesn't rap on this song at all.

If anything it's POP.

 

Thank you.....I couldn't agree more...genres have segregated music...the Rolling Stones "Sweet Virginia" is as country as you can get under the "rock" label....Ray Charles modern sounds of country music is a gem....

 

Pop to me just means it makes a lot of money

 

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We have a winner!!!!!

"mainstream"... GTFO...

 

I believe he himself calls it country trap. If that is what it is...fine.

I don't like it so pop is a very good name for it. Call it whatever you want. I thought the video was pretty cool but the song is gaaaaaarbage. He is using autotune or some effect right? Can't stand that sound. Fake

 

Red Sovine predates them all! Tom Waits covered this one much later on

 

That is one of the best songs ever. By a country group.

If Led Zepplin had made that EXACT song note for note and the country chart people took them off the charts I'd be fine with that. That song is way more country than the song in the OP anyway. Speaking the story doesn't sound like rap and the chorus certainly isn't.

 

This makes zero sense. That's exactly why it's called rap. If you are rapping with a few of your boys, you're sitting around having a conversation (speaking, talking, not singing).

This could also be Rap. Rap is what you DO.

 

Also, Lil' Nas X isn't rapping! He isn't speaking the story. He's singing it.

 

Rap has more than just words to it. It has music. Just because he's speaking the first part of the story doesn't make the song sound like rap. There is a ton of rock music that they do something similar.

 

green sauce!

 

I hate all Americanized food except for Chinese and Thai.

 

Completely wrong.

It's not about the musical composition at all. It's about what you DO with it.

There are many MANY rap songs that don't incorporate the type of music you'd think you'd hear with mainstream rap song.

It's what you do.

 

Then I've been rapping my whole life.

Then this is rap too.

 

They're rockin' on that song and you know it.

Bottom line is that Lil' Nas X's song has NO rapping on it. Trap is not rap.