He had planned to hide his sexuality to protect his burgeoning career. Now, this culture-changing artist is unapologetic about speaking out.
This is the story of Lil Nas X.
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
00:25that love and attention, you know, you know, it's right here, you know, within me.
00:30So
00:50I think we know why we're all here today
00:52Five of you will be getting roses
00:55And the rest of you will be going home
01:00So
01:02So
01:04So
01:28Everything's like closing in on me, you know, it's time to
01:31Stop music go back to school and then I find this beat on youtube, like which is an old town road
02:02So
02:04People always say like they love the
02:07The uh bridging, you know it did for you know, hip-hop country and older and younger generations and it's just a wide love song
02:31So
02:36But he's a young artist and you know, it's amazing to see
02:39what somebody with a disruptive kind of
02:43mindset comes in and uh
02:45and just really uses
02:48An interesting and artistic approach to it
03:01So
03:05It's a banger it's a banger
03:31So
03:41I'm growing up to hate this. Hey, what homosexuality gay people? Come on now
03:46Why are you going if you're really from the hood, you know
03:48I'm already moving forward and i'm becoming more free with everything I do
03:53It was either going to be that or what like pretend this for the rest of my entire life
03:57And also not be able to express that in what I do my music
04:28So
04:36I know like i'm here for a reason, you know, like be like especially definitely music but it's like beyond that
04:58I
05:00Guess I like grew up a lot
05:02having like this
05:04Hidden self-hatred like for myself, you know and not even realizing that it was there
05:27So
05:43I've been trying to act like everything's okay. But the truth is I want everybody to scream call me by your name
05:49I know i'm here for
05:51Much bigger reason, you know, so I want to definitely step into these conversations start these conversations
05:58because
06:00I know
06:01My word means something