By STEPHEN HU
FOR THE FREE LANCE-STAR
Lilâ Nas X may have blown a lot of peoplesâ minds when he mixed rap and country with âOld Town Road,â but 29-year-old Fredericksburg-area singer Elijah Schoolfield has lived between those worlds growing up as a black man in Stafford County.
âI just get a lot of influence from country because I grew up out here,â said Schoolfield. âI grew up on 93.3 WFLS going to school and back every single day. Also, my mom is a huge country fan. I grew up on that so much, itâs always going to have an influence on me whether it was through music or my life in generalâthings I like to do like fishing and riding four wheelers. The country lifestyle has always had an influence on me.â