Mon, April 8, 2019 at 4:15 PM UTC JELLY ROLL: “Old Town Road” is a f—ing incredible record. This song has a lot in common with country top 40. There are some big 808s in there, but those are the same ...

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Nelly’s “Country Grammar (Hot Shit),” the lead single from his 2000 album Country Grammar, is comfortably at home in 2025. He mentions AI, Donald Trump, and lighting up and taking a puff of chronic, ...

Following is the transcript of the video.. Narrator: Country videos are looking a lot like hip-hop videos these days. And it's not just the girls and the cars. For example, you might recognize this ...

Despite how they’ve at times been ideologically pitted against one another, country music and hip-hop are often compared as the two forms of pop music that speak most directly to the everyday problems ...

Despite the ever-present calls for “real” country music and condemnation of what many listeners deem to be “pop country,” the truth is that as time and culture have progressed, so has the sound.

Rising mother-daughter duo O.N.E. may still be an unfamiliar name in country music, but in hip hop, these two artists are already well-known. The band consists of Tekitha Washington, who served as the ...

A wide array of artists across genres are joining the national conversation. Although the world of live music -- from hip-hop to country -- has come to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Two current country hits by black musicians are challenging traditional notions of the genre. Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" and Blanco Brown's "The Git Up" pulse with history and humor. This is FRESH ...

The 24-year-old’s single “My Truck” is the most viable fusion of rural and urban since “Old Town Road,” and his new EP pushes the sound even further. By Jon Caramanica In the video for Breland’s ...

Over the last few weeks, “Old Town Road” — a strutting and lightheartedly comedic country-rap tune by the previously unknown 20-year-old rapper Lil Nas X — has lived an improbable number of lives. It ...