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So It's Come To This: BTS Rapper RM Leads Lil Nas X Down 'Seoul Town Road'

Two powerhouses have teamed up for an inevitable remix, should you need a reminder that "Old Town Road" will remain at the top of the charts until the earth is a charred cinder.
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's inescapable, genre-obliterating pop/hip-hop/country smash "Old Town Road" has been No. 1 on the Hot 100 for , a run enabled by incorporating (and, later, ). Thursday morning, in a likely remix — this time with rapper RM of the K-pop juggernaut .

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