Year in Music 2020: The Year in Country
Tweet Breland It’s possible you’ve heard cynics saying things like this in hushed tones throughout 2020: Lil Nas X was just country music’s rapping carpetbagger. He’s an interloping one-hit wonder in a Nudie suit who certainly can’t repeat the success of The double-diamond-selling Georgia MC did not follow up his smash hit with another honky-tonking revolution in 2020. But Black people who appreciate country music aren’t a monolithic block. And Lil Nas X can’t easily be written off as an aberration, a byproduct of the surprising growth of countryâÂ...
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