He just released his highly-anticipated album, "Montero".
From hiding his sexuality to protect his burgeoning career to being unapologetic about speaking out, this is the story of Lil Nas X.
From hiding his sexuality to protect his burgeoning career to being unapologetic about speaking out, this is the story of Lil Nas X.
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00:00You're going to realize Lil Nas X isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
00:19I used to always like depend on somebody else or other people like for that love and attention,
00:26you know, it's right here, you know, within me.
00:30So,
00:50I think we know we're all here today.
00:52Five of you will be getting roses and the rest of you will be going home.
01:00So,
01:10so,
01:28everything's like closing in on me, you know, it's time to stop music, go back to school.
01:34And then I find this beat on YouTube, like, which is an old town road.
02:04So,
02:11people always say like they love the
02:14the bridging, you know, it did for, you know,
02:17hip hop country and older and younger generations and it's just a wide love song.
02:34So,
02:43he's a young artist and, you know, it's amazing to see
02:46what somebody with a disruptive kind of mindset comes in and just really uses
02:55an interesting and artistic approach to it.
03:04So,
03:12it's a banger. It's a banger.
03:34So,
03:48I'm growing up to hate that.
03:50Hate what?
03:50Homosexuality.
03:52Gay people.
03:53Come on now.
03:53Why are you going to?
03:54If you're really from the hood, you know.
03:55I'm already moving forward and I'm becoming more free with everything I do.
04:00It was either going to be that or what?
04:02Like pretend this for the rest of my entire life
04:05and also not be able to express that in what I do, my music.
04:30So,
04:43I know like I'm here for a reason, you know,
04:46like be like especially definitely music, but it's like beyond that.
05:00I guess I like grew up a lot having like this hidden self-hatred,
05:16like for myself, you know, and not even realizing that it was there.
05:30So,
06:00I know I'm here for a much bigger reason, you know.
06:11So, I want to definitely step into these conversations, start these conversations
06:16because I know my word means something.