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Shuja Haider is an editor at Viewpoint Magazine. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Pitchfork, and Dissent.

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The Invention of Twang

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Last December, a nineteen-year-old SoundCloud rapper from Atlanta named Lil Nas X released a new track called “Old Town Road.” He tagged the song not as hip-hop, as he had ...

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