Lil Nas X And Billy Ray Cyrus Play 'Old Town Road' For The First Time Live

Some days, true stories beat just about anything made up for the big and small screens. Any time they're as juicy as Lil Nas X's narrative in the nation music realm, they're pure gold. Take what happened this weekend at Stagecoach, a country-music festival in Indio, California.


Right after effectively being told in March that his song "Old Town Road" — which has since hit No. 1 and become one of the greatest hits of the year — wasn't nation enough to be included on Billboard's Hot Nation Songs chart, it's only fitting that a month later, he performed the song for the opening time reside at Stagecoach. Along for the ride was Billy Ray Cyrus, who collaborated with Lil Nas X on the song's remix. With each other, as fan-captured footage reveals, they made history.


Diplo, who recently released his own remix of "Old Town Road" moreover to a potential nation pivot of his own, brought out the two performers to cap off his set. First came Cyrus, slowly strumming his guitar onstage in an explosion of smoke, singing the initial lines of the remix. Lil Nas X then came out in yeehaw-dinous style, booming the track's soft nation lyricism with a commanding tone. The crowd went bananas, clinging to every word and regurgitating every syllable of both artists' verses.


Earlier this month, "Old Town Road" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming largest song In the
U.S.. The track previously climbed to No. 19 on Billboard's Hot Nation Songs chart nevertheless was removed from in March because, as Billboard mentioned in a statement, it didn't "embrace enough elements of today's nation music." Cyrus hopped on the remix right after reaching out to Lil Nas X publicly to support him.


Take a look at a video of the energetic efficiency up above.