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Tobi Akingbade

Lil Nas X teams up with BTS' RM for new Old Town remix Seoul Town Road

Remix: Lil Nas X has been inspired by the recent spate of Area 51 memes (Picture: Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road has now had a revamp as the rapper teamed up with BTS’ RM for a remix called Seoul Town Road.

The aptly named version has sent the BTS fanbase, The Army, into a frenzy online with the viral hit rapper promising that it is his last remake of the track.

The song references South Korea’s capital city Seoul - where K-pop group BTS was formed - and sees RM jumping on a verse and joining in on the catchy chorus with Nas.

Upon its release, the 20-year-old tweeted: "last one i PROMISSEE[sic]"

Old Town Road has spent over 15 weeks at the top of the Billboard 100 chart in the US in 2019.

It broke weekly streaming records when Lil Nas released a remix featuring country star Billy Ray, topping the chart with 143 million US streams.

The record was previously held by Drake’s In My Feelings, which racked up 116.2 million streams on the week of July 28 2018.

A second remix featuring Mason Ramsey and Young Thug was released earlier this month.

In it the rapper's cartoon video saw his avatar invite his collaborators to storm Area 51, arriving on horseback to the shock of soldiers guarding the top secret facility.

RM (in the middle) joined Lil Nas X on the new track (Getty Images)

The event has inspired plenty of hilarious memes on social mediaand interest in the base has even prompted the US Air Force to issue a pre-emptive warning to trespassers.

The song is so popular, other stars have taken on the delight of doing their own versions. Blondie has been covering the song while on a co-headlining tour with Elvis Costello and the Imposters.

Lil Nas X previously told Rolling Stone that he wrote the song while “bored one day,” he also had a vision for its viral nature.

He said: “It was the first song I genuinely formulated. I was like, ‘I gotta make it short, I gotta make it catchy, I gotta have quotable lines that people want to use as captions.’

“Especially with the ‘horses in the back’ line, I was like, ‘This is something people are gonna say every day.’”

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