Dave East seems not to be feeling Lil Nas X’s breakout single.
During a Wednesday night Instagram Live session, The New York rapper got on the topic of the breakout hit and he made it clear that he doesn’t understand the appeal of Lil Nas X’s tongue-in-cheek country-rap hit.
“That fuckin’ ‘Old Town Road‘ shit is fucking wack,” Dave said. “I don’t know what the fuck is going on with hip-hop, with rap but… I ain’t no hater, man, but that shit is wack with a cape on it. It’s super wack!”
Dave East really out here saying “Old Town Road” is wack. What y’all think? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/7gcadTif8k
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) April 18, 2019
The rapper’s genre-bending single “Old Town Road” spends a second week atop the Billboard Hot 100, propelled by the remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, which was released April 5.
The song has accumulated more than 143 million streams this week alone, comfortably breaking the previous record held by Drake’s single ‘in My Feelings’ ‘116 million’ last year.
Biggest streaming weeks of all time for songs:@LilNasX "Old Town Road" April 20, 2019 (143 million)@Drake "In My Feelings" July 28, 2018 (116.2)@Drake "In My Feelings" Aug. 4, 2018 (106.2)@baauer "Harlem Shake" March 2, 2013 (103.1)@Drake "God's Plan" March 3, 2018 (101.6)
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) April 15, 2019
In addition, The Atlanta up-and-comer has also teased another remix with Young Thug, and even joked about releasing an “Old Town Road” album consisting of remixes, acapellas, and interludes.