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<p>Yes, Roommates, y&#8217;all read that right. Lil Nas X&#8217;s &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; has been dominating the TikTok app with its blend of country and hip-hop sounds. Lil Nas X found his hit debuting on Billboard&#8217;s Hot Country Songs and Hot R&;B/Hip Hop songs all at once.</p>
<p>&#8216;Old Town Road&#8217;s seat at the country table was short-lived though. According to @rollingstone, Billboard removed &#8216;Old Town Raod&#8217; from the Hot Country Songs chart and informed Columbia Records that Lil Nas X&#8217;s inclusion on the chart was a mistake.</p>
<p>&#8220;Upon further review, it was determined that &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; by Lil Nas X does not currently merit inclusion on Billboard&#8217;s country charts,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;While &#8216;Old Country Road&#8217; incorporated references to country and cowboy imagery, it does not embrace enough elements of today&#8217;s country music to chart in its current version.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, the celebrities and fans beg to differ. Many celebs took to twitter, including Wale, questioning exactly what it means for a song to be &#8220;country enough&#8221;, and many have accused Billboard of removing Lil Nas X&#8217;s song because of his race.</p>
<p>Manager of another country sensation, Danny Kang, told Rolling Stone that Lil Nas X&#8217;s removal from the Billboard Chart has nothing to do with his race, and even offered a theory of how he ended up on the chart in the first place.</p>
<p>&#8220;He is listed as a country record. He was going to these spaces, gaining a little bit of traction,&#8221; Kang said. &#8220;And there&#8217;s a way to manipulate the algorithm to push your track to the top.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rolling Stone also sites the various streaming services that list &#8216;Old Town Road&#8217; as a country song including SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify.</p>
<p>Lil Nas X declined to comment on Billboard&#8217;s decision, but took to instagram expressing how disappointed he was in what took place.</p>
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