The Music-Making Site That Can Get You a Global Hit (Or a Lawsuit) - Rolling Stone

The Music-Making Site That Can Get You a Global Hit (Or a Lawsuit)  Rolling Stone

No one saw Lil Nas X coming. His race to ubiquity came impossibly quickly, and it’s a rare instance of an artist’s industry story — the making-of chronicle of an underdog star — becoming to wide audiences as compelling as his music. Ever since the 20-year-old rapper rose into the public eye a few months ago, first on the madcap video platform TikTok and then in headlines amid controversy over country-music charts, fans and executives alike have been scrambling to work out the method behind his one-song success. Of the dissections of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” which has sat at the top...