HIT-BOY SAYS BEYONCÉ SONGS ARE ‘REAL COUNTRY’ IN RESPONSE TO CONTROVERSY OVER AIRPLAY

Hit-Boy is coming to Beyoncé‘s defense against those who don’t categorize her new songs as country.

Queen Bey announced her forthcoming country album with the release of two new songs during the Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 11). But when a fan tried to request one of the tracks, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” on an Oklahoma-based country radio station, they were denied.

“We do not play Beyonce on KYKC as we are a country music station,” read an email in response to the fan, who then shared the interaction on Twitter/X.

Calling the refusal discrimination, the fan who goes by the handle @Jussatto wrote, “This station needs to be held accountable for their blatant racism and discrimination against Beyoncé. @1001KYKC This is absolutely ridiculous and racist. You guys should be ashamed. I grew up listening to your station. PLEASE EMAIL THE RADIO STATION TO REQUEST THE SONG.”

When Hit-Boy saw a post about the controversy from Popbase, he took a screenshot of it and shared it to his Instagram with the caption: “TELL EM PLAY TEXAS