It feels like Lil Nas X just rode into town, but it also feels like forever ago. His insurgent hit single, “ Old Town Road,” is already so many things: a twangy rap song, a swaggy country song ...

Watch how an unknown Atlanta artist used his meme-making skills and a country-trap beat from the Netherlands to bring “Old Town Road” to the top of the Billboard charts.

The song "Old Town Road" by Lil Nax X mentions "Wrangler on my booty." Officials in Wellesley, Mass., says people are taking street signs from its Old Town Road.

“Old Town Road” is so much more than a hit at this point — it’s like centuries of American music were all building up to these 113 seconds of genius. Lil Nas X’s yeehaw manifesto has ...

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.

As Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" prepares to break the record for most weeks at No. 1, calling it a "novelty song" or "one-hit wonder" only speaks to its charms.

What “Old Town Road” does is make this shape-shifting process super-duper explicit, right down to the video-game music video: Turn on the song and you’re playing as a heroic sharpshooter.

Carrie Battan writes about the surprising, genre-busting success of the song “Old Town Road,” by the nineteen-year-old rapper Lil Nas X.

Fueling the success of “Old Town Road” is the controversy surrounding it: Over a week ago, Billboard opted to remove the song from its Country chart.

Lil Nas X's country-trap anthem broke the record for the most weeks atop Billboard's Hot 100 charts, because it's so darn fun.

Lil Nas X's left-field country-rap smash 'Old Town Road' is the biggest song of 2019. Billy Ray Cyrus was smart enough to hitch his wagon to it. So why hasn't Nashville done the same?

That’s ‘Old Town Road,’ Lil Nas X’s big hit, and it was tearing up the country charts until Billboard pulled it off for not being country enough.” “Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, now.