The summer of Black Lives Matter, a deadly contagion and monuments being toppled deserves an anthem to stir and transport
, a cowboy-themed hip-hop track from Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus that stirred controversy when Billboard disqualified the song from its country charts. The justification was that it “does not embrace enough elements of today’s country music.” Critics argued that Billboard’s genre exclusion of a song by a Black rapper was racially motivated.Ideally the Song of the Summer would be the music that’s in the air – figuratively and, in the case of radio, literally.
The video, shared by the likes of Barack Obama and LeBron James, has been viewed more than three million times. It’s possible this year’s summer song is something we’ve yet to hear. Drake is set to drop an album soon, rumours say. Although hip hop by its nature is protest music, Drizzy isn’t built for that. Kendrick Lamar, a fired-up country turns its eyes to you.
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