Welcome to

Welcome to Rolling

Now.

It's our weekly podcast of all things country music in Nashville and

sometimes points in between.

I'm Joseph Hudak, your host, senior music editor of Rolling Stone

at Rolling Stone. I guess it wouldn't be of Rolling Stone.

There's more than one of us. Hey, country is here. Nashville is now. We have a very, very cool

guest today. Name is Inc. She has a new EP out called Big Buskin, dropped in October.

She's a singer-songwriter born in Germany and then was raised outside

of Atlanta, really kind of got her big break writing for Beyonce. She also did some work

with Kendrick Lamar. Yes, you're saying, oh, but wait, this isn't country music. Ah, but yes,

it is because Beyonce's Cowboy Carter is sure as shit country music and ink is sure

a shit country.

We're going to have her here in the Nashville now cabin to talk about her EP, to talk about

working with Beyonce.

She wrote with Casey Musgraves, Big X the Plug, a lot of energy in the room when she walks in.

You're going to love it.

But before that, we sent director Steve, our trusty producer and director of this podcast,

out into the wild of a festival just outside of Ocean City, Maryland, in Ocean City, Maryland,

really, called Ocean's Calling. And he talked to someone who

had a real, does have a real foothold in country music for many, many years now. And it's Nelly,

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