{"id":20296,"date":"2019-04-07T17:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=20296"},"modified":"2019-04-07T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T22:31:07","slug":"rap-the-new-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=20296","title":{"rendered":"Rap &#8211; the new &#8220;Country&#8221; music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-billy-ray-cyrus-remix-memes-billboard-a8857666.html\">Independent (.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facing a social media campaign to push a rap song to the #1 hit on the country charts &#8211; despite getting no air play on country radio &#8211; Billboard is in a very bad position.   Having a rap song at the top of the Country chart makes it clear how out of touch Billboard is.  Saying that a black &#8220;musician&#8221; is not eligible to make country music would be riot worthy material.   So Billboard disallowed the song on the basis that it as not &#8220;country enough&#8221;.   So Billy Ray Cyrus is &#8220;helping&#8221; by doing a remix to add some real country cred to the song and putting Billboard on the path to incineration.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/thqS6pK8IfE<\/p>\n<p>(Billy Ray Cyrus is the father of Miley Cyrus)<\/p>\n<p>So if you can get to #1 without being on any country music stations, what does that say about radio?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent (.uk) Facing a social media campaign to push a rap song to the #1 hit on the country charts &#8211; despite getting no air play on country radio &#8211; Billboard is in a very bad position. Having a rap &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=20296\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20299,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20296\/revisions\/20299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}