{"id":2444331,"date":"2019-05-17T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=836792"},"modified":"2019-05-17T11:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T17:28:58","slug":"time-traveling-cowboys-and-yee-yee-juice-watch-lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/time-traveling-cowboys-and-yee-yee-juice-watch-lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Traveling Cowboys and Yee Yee Juice: Watch Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrus\u2019 \u2018Old Town Road\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/oldtownrd.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billy-ray-cyrus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-ray-cyrus\" data-tag=\"billy-ray-cyrus\">Billy Ray Cyrus<\/a> play a pair of time traveling cowboys in the outrageous, cameo-filled new video for their \u201cOld Town Road\u201d remix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Calmatic-directed clip opens with Lil Nas X and Cyrus running from the law with a fat bag of cash. After the duo make their great escape, the sheriff, played by Chris Rock, shakes his head and quips, \u201cWhen you see a black man on a horse going that fast, you just gotta let \u2018em fly!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The two end up at a nearby homestead, but when the owner comes out, guns blazing, Lil Nas X seeks cover in a mineshaft that magically propels him into 2019. As \u201cOld Town Road\u201d plays, Lil Nas X goes about wowing the locals, besting a car in a street race with his trusty steed, linking back up with Cyrus and bringing their smash song to a bingo hall\/square dance where the <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/old-town-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cYee Yee Juice\u201d<\/a> flows and Diplo plays the washboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The \u201cOld Town Road\u201d video also features cameos from Vince Staples, Ha Ha Davis, Rico Nasty, Jozzy and the song\u2019s producer, YoungKio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOld Town Road\u201d has spent a remarkable six weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-number-one-hot-100-816584\/\">atop<\/a> the <em>Billboard<\/em> Hot 100. The song became a viral smash on TikTok and gained additional notoriety when it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-810844\/\">suddenly removed<\/a> from the Country charts because,&nbsp;<em>Billboard<\/em> claimed, it did not \u201cembrace enough elements of today\u2019s country music.\u201d After that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billy-ray-cyrus-lil-nas-x-old-town-road-remix-817457\/\">Cyrus hopped<\/a> on the first remix of the song, while more recently Diplo offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/diplolil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road-828369\/\">his own remix<\/a> of the remix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-billy-ray-cyrus-old-town-road-music-video-836792\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus play a pair of time traveling cowboys in the outrageous, cameo-filled new video for their \u201cOld Town Road\u201d remix. The Calmatic-directed clip opens with Lil Nas X and Cyrus running from the law with a fat bag of cash. After the duo make their great escape, the sheriff, [&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-2444331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 09:47:21","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\/2444331","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=2444331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}