The unlikely leap from Lil Nas X to superstardom was fraught with unexpected pitfalls. Getting the honors on the National Billboard map on a technicality, then losing this distinction against another technicality, Lil Nas X could easily have bent and settle on the Klondike Trail hip-hop, but he persisted despite everything.

While social media about "Old Town Road" preached the need for a sociocultural change (lol, yes), Lil Nas X has maintained its consistent trend towards other more generalized Billboard graphics. Best of all, Nas X, an artist signed at this stage, kept Billy Ray Cyrus' ace card until he was ready to play with it.

Of course, Billy Ray crushes the remix, or even steals the show (no Miley, that's not how property liens work). But the real treat here is how Lil Nas picked up the ground he lost when the bureaucrats started calling for reforms. Besides the fact that the remix of "Old Town Road" is a troll of master classes, it is legitimately more "country" than any other element of the current Top 10.

But against whom should I blow against the wind … such a prognosis is outside my area of ​​expertise. What I do know, however, is that "Old Town Road" is about to break the one-week record-breaking record by Drake for "God's Plan". The record is 127,000 laps. Friday, the original remix + Lil Nas X collectively rested at 125k. You do the math.

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