The track marries a beat familiar to hip-hop fans with acoustic sounds and lyrics filled with cowboy imagery. Once it was a success, Billboard removed it from its country chart. On Friday, in what seemed to be a dare to Billboard and Nashville, Lil Nas X released a new version of the song that included the s country star Billy Ray Cyrus as a featured vocalist.
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By Chuck Arnold. This week the song tied the record for the longest-running No. To be 16 weeks at No. But that being said, I just loved this song, and I thought the song just brought people together from all walks of life. How did you end up hooking up with Lil Nas X in the first place? But I fell in love with it just like everybody else did. What did you think about the fact that, before your remix was released, the single was disqualified from the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for not fitting the genre enough?
After gaining popularity, the single was re-released by Columbia Records in March The song has been widely labeled as " country rap ", a genre that had not often reached the mainstream prior to its release. Dutch record producer YoungKio produced the instrumental and made it available for purchase online in The sample was placed behind trap -style Roland TR drums and bass. At the time, he had been living with his sister after dropping out of college; his real world struggles served as an influence on some of the lyrics. The song initially gained popularity on social video sharing app TikTok and eventually entered the Billboard charts in March The song reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart before the magazine disqualified it from being included on the chart on grounds that it did not fit the genre, sparking a debate on the definition of country music. Though it was not re-entered onto the overall country charts, both the original version of the song and the remix featuring Cyrus eventually peaked at number one on the flagship Billboard chart, the Hot , for a record-breaking nineteen consecutive weeks.
