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Country Music’s Race Problem

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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The White Boy With the Mullet for the Face

Morgan Wallens has taken youth culture, which is hip hop culture. He's laid the narratives of country music over it, but that's black music. And so there's a reason why this is very popular with especially young listeners. It takes some of the black culture and remixes it for an audience that just doesn't want the intimacy of black artists in their ears much.

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