Lil Nas Reveals His Favourite Amapiano Song. Montero Lamar Hill, known as Lil Nas X, is a Grammy-winning American rapper and musician. He first rose to fame with his song “Old Town Road,” which holds the record for the Billboard Hot 100’s longest-running number-one song, spending 19 weeks in the top spot.
Currently, Amapiano is arguably South Africa’s most infectious new commodity, attracting new audiences as the genre continues to spread globally like wildfire. The genre has also become a favourite to most global stars including rapper Lil Nas who revealed ‘Mnike’ by Tyler ICU and DJ Maphorisa as his favourite song right now. Check it out:
Amapiano, born roughly one hour north of Johannesburg in the administrative capital city of Pretoria, is pioneered by hometown artists. Music has always connected the people of the continent and the diaspora beyond the cultural and language barriers that sometimes exist.
As it stands, amapiano is potentially on pace to influence a significant portion of the overall sonic landscape of some parts of the continent and penetrate further into other markets, reaching new audiences. It is already being produced in the UK, Japan, US and other countries.
