{"id":2443856,"date":"2019-05-07T01:25:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=832280"},"modified":"2019-05-07T01:25:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T07:25:31","slug":"watch-lil-nas-x-perform-old-town-road-on-desus-and-mero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-lil-nas-x-perform-old-town-road-on-desus-and-mero\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lil Nas X Perform \u2018Old Town Road\u2019 on \u2018Desus and Mero\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-07-at-8.11.14-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-nas-x\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-nas-x\" data-tag=\"lil-nas-x\">Lil Nas X<\/a> appeared on Showtime series <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/desus-and-mero\/\" id=\"auto-tag_desus-and-mero\" data-tag=\"desus-and-mero\">Desus and Mero<\/a><\/em> to discuss his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844\/\">recent success<\/a> with country single \u201cOld Town Road.\u201d The rapper, whose track <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-number-one-hot-100-816584\/\">went to No. 1<\/a> on the Hot 100, spoke to the hosts about his career and working with Billy Ray Cyrus before offering a performance of \u201cOld Town Road\u201d in Brooklyn\u2019s Hometown Bar-b-que.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, Lil Nas X, clad in a red latex jacket and a cowboy hat, regales a crowd of diners with his single from a small stage with the help of his live band. The hosts dance and mouth the words of the song along with the rapper.<\/p>\n<p>During his appearance, Desus and Mero also tapped Lil Nas X to play a game called \u201cCountry or Nah,\u201d in which the rapper had to decide whether things were or were not country. A few things that he deemed country: hot sauce, hay and concealed carry. Not: wizards and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KO5mnLjgg48?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cyrus recently teamed up with the rapper to perform \u201cOld Town Road\u201d at Stagecoach, the pair\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/old-town-road-lil-nas-x-stagecoach-billy-ray-cyrus-828509\/\">first live performance<\/a> of the tune. The duo joined Diplo onstage at the Indio festival. Cyrus is slated to perform at CMA Fest in Nashville in June, which may give Lil Nas X another chance to collaborate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-lil-nas-x-perform-old-town-town-desus-mero-832280\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Nas X appeared on Showtime series Desus and Mero to discuss his recent success with country single \u201cOld Town Road.\u201d The rapper, whose track went to No. 1 on the Hot 100, spoke to the hosts about his career and working with Billy Ray Cyrus before offering a performance of \u201cOld Town Road\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 14:50:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}