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Lil Nas X - Old Town Road: Blog tasks

  Background and cultural contexts Read  this Vox feature and podcast transcript on Lil Nas X and Old Town Road . Make sure you read the whole thing - including the podcast transcript - then answer the following questions:  1) What is the big debate regarding Old Town Road and genre?  A number of factors have contributed to Lil Nas X’s popularity, particularly the debate over whether “Old Town Road” should be classified as country music 2) What do you learn about the background of Lil Nas X and Old Town Road from the podcast transcript? Lil Nas X is a 20-year-old rapper from Atlanta. Technically his birth name is Montero Hill, but he has been calling himself “Lil Nas X” for several years now. And last year he joined SoundCloud, as many people do. And by the end of the year in December he released a song called “Old Town Road.” The background for Old Town Road is that Lil Nas X bought a beat that had this sort of country-sounding instrumental to it. And he said he was...