A controversy over race, rap and country music

Today on Front Burner, a controversy about music, authorship and race.

For weeks, the song Old Town Roadby rapper Lil Nas X had been climbing the country music charts. After Billboard disqualified the hit saying it wasn't "country" enough, there have been accusations the song was taken off because it was created by a black artist.

Brittany Spanos from Rolling Stone says she thinks "our music divisions come down to race," citing the misclassification of pop stars like Janelle Mone and Beyonce as R&B. "A lot of ways we look at genre are based on racial stereotypes."