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Hey y'all, this is Sam's Aunt Daddy. This week on the show, repile columnist for Bloomberg opinion Sarah Hallback and Washington Post reporter Dan Zach.

Alright, let's start the show.

Zach attack. Hello. Hey y'all from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders. It's been a minute. Happy weekend to my listeners and to my guests.

Hello, hello, hello. Hi, Sam. Hey, good to be here.

We're at Sarah Hallsack retail columnist at Bloomberg opinion and Dan Zach feature writer for the Washington Post.

And I am playing for you both a country trap record called old town road by a rapper named Lil Nas X.

We're going to play it right now.

Yeah, I want to take my horse to the old town road. I'm going to ride till I can no longer take my horse to the old town road.

So my question for both of you, Dan and Sarah, is this a country song?

I got the horses in the back. Horse stock is a touch.

I don't know. It really seems to be walking the line for me.

You can't work your horse. I've been in a valley. You ain't been about that horse.

Dan, you know I'm the worst person to ask about this. I think country music is a state of mind.

So if you want it to be country, it's country.

This is the correct answer, Dan, because this has been the big question about this song since it became a hit.

So this song, Old Town Road, became this viral sensation on TikTok, the video editing app.

All the kids would make videos of themselves dancing to this song.

And then country radio began to play it.

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