'I'm at a moment of my life where everything's, like, you know, going good,' said Lil Nas X. And then you get the news that they've decided it's not country enough,' King said. It's climbing up the Billboard country charts.
'I knew if I pushed this as hard as I could to keep this momentum going, I'm gonna have something.' On 'Old Town Road' being removed from Billboard's Hot Country chart: 'I'm not really caring too much' 'The day the song came out, I knew I was on to something,' he added. 'I wanted it to be, like, a sad-leaning song in the beginning - but then just kinda turn into a banger, you know?' 'I wanted to paint a picture of, like, a depressed kind of cowboy going to a better life,' he said. He added that he knew from the start that the song would have a country twist, even though he wasn't a country music fan.
He pulled $30 together to lease the beat, he said, then had to wait another month to go to the studio for a $20 Tuesday deal.
