After the success and controversy of multi-genre music artist Lil Nas X’s extremely popular country hit “Old Town Road,” we thought it’d be a good time to take a look back down memory lane at the black creators and innovators that are so often forgotten in country music.
Lil Nas X gives us layers in “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)”, a visually-dynamic story about desire, hypocritical judgement from others, and even judgment from himself.
Like “Ghetto Superstar” giving “Islands in the Stream” a hip-hop makeover in 1998, these tracks not only sample the tunes that came before, but steer them on a fast-moving vehicle into the modern day.
