How Billy Ray Cyrus may help a young rapper return to the country music charts

If you create a rap-country song that becomes a smash hit, rises to No. 15 on Billboard’s Hot 100, and then gets disqualified from the country chart for not being yeehaw enough, what can do you to prove your western bona fides? Remix the song with Billy Ray Cyrus, of course.

Lil Nas X, a 19-year-old rapper, became a viral sensation after releasing “Old Town Road,” a song with country lyrics and a hip-hop beat. “Yeah, I’m gonna take my horse to the old town road,” the rapper sings. “I’m gonna ride ’til I can’t no more.”