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Country Music’s Race Problem

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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The Fix for a Country's Race Problem

I think ultimately demography always wins. And this has always been why black people survive and thrive. We ultimately win because we are creative. I just don't think you keep making generations, especially of young white people listen to trap music. They want to listen to it in a mullet, but I don't think that lasts forever. When I'm on the ground in Nashville, it looks and sounds so much different than anything I hear on the radio or in national media about Nashville. There's this great country pop R&B crossover between Kane Brown and her. Alison Russell has a new album out this country with a twinge of disco in it.

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