He began playing trumpet in the fourth grade and was first chair by his junior high years, but quit out of fear of looking uncool. He spent much of his teenage years alone, and turned to the Internet, 'particularly Twitter, creating memes that showed his disarming wit and pop-culture savvy.' His teenage years also saw him struggling with his coming out to himself as being gay he prayed that it was just a phase, but around 16 or 17 he came to accept it. Although initially reluctant to leave, he later regarded it as an important decision, 'There's so much shit going on in Atlanta-if I would have stayed there, I would have fallen in with the wrong crowd.' He started 'using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment' about when he was 13. Three years later, he moved in with his father, a gospel singer, north of the city in Austell, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was six, and he settled in the Bankhead Courts housing project with his mother and grandmother. He was named after the Mitsubishi Montero. Montero Lamar Hill was born in Lithia Springs, Georgia, a small city outside Atlanta, on April 9, 1999. 2.4 2022-present: Upcoming second studio album.2.2 2018–2019: Breakthrough with 'Old Town Road' and 7.Time named him as one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet in 2019, and he was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2020. 'Old Town Road' earned him two MTV Video Music Awards including Song of the Year, and the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song Lil Nas X is also the first openly LGBT Black artist to win a Country Music Association award. Lil Nas X was the most-nominated male artist at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, where he ultimately won awards for Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. His debut studio album, Montero (2021), was supported by the chart-topping singles ' Montero (Call Me by Your Name)' and ' Industry Baby' (with Jack Harlow) and the top-ten single ' Thats What I Want', and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. įollowing the success of 'Old Town Road', Lil Nas X released his debut extended play, titled 7, which spawned two further singles⁠, with ' Panini' peaking at number five and ' Rodeo' (featuring Cardi B or Nas) peaking at number 22 on the Hot 100. As 'Old Town Road' was atop the Hot 100, Lil Nas X came out as gay becoming the only artist to do so while having a number-one record. Several remixes of the song were released, the most popular of which featured country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song since the chart debuted in 1958. 'Old Town Road' spent 19 weeks atop the U.S. He rose to prominence with the release of his country rap single ' Old Town Road', which first achieved viral popularity in early 2019 before climbing music charts internationally and becoming diamond certified by November of that same year. Montero Lamar Hill (born April 9, 1999), known by his stage name Lil Nas X ( / n ɑː z/ NAHZ), is an American rapper and singer.

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