Montero Lamar Hill, known as Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. rose to prominence with the release of his country rap single \”Old Town Road\”, which first achieved viral popularity on the social media app TikTok in early 2019. Nas X came out as gay while the song was atop the Hot 100, becoming the only artist to do so while having a number-one record. Time named him as one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet in 2019.
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Montero Lamar Hill, known as Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with the release of his country rap single \”Old Town Road\”, which first achieved viral popularity on the social media app TikTok in early 2019. Nas X came out as gay while the song was atop the Hot 100, becoming the only artist to do so while having a number-one record. Time named him as one of the 25 most influential people on the Internet in 2019. In September 2019 he revisited his high school to perform a surprise concert. As of August 2019 Nas X has: 2.3 million followers on Twitter; four million followers in Instagram; and over 44 million monthly listeners on Spotify. He is the first openly LGBTQ artist to win a Country Music Association award. He was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2020. He has released two singles, one of which has been remixed by Billy Ray Cyrus. He released his debut EP, titled 7, which spawned two further singles, with \”Panini\” peaking at number 5 on the Hot100 and \”Rodeo\” peering at number 22. In 2017, he reportedly created and ran Nicki Minaj fan accounts on Twitter, including one called @NasMaraj. He later opened a new account with a handle with a different name. He also created a flash-style flash-scenario thread on Twitter using dashboard appDeck. In 2018, he was suspended by Twitter for violating its spam policies due to ‘violating spam policies’ and ‘using multiple accounts in collaboration to artificially make certain tweets go viral’ He has a son with singer/songwriter/producer Lil’ Yachty, and a daughter with rapper Lil’ Jazzy.
He lives in Lithia Springs, Georgia, with his mother and grandmother. He started 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, creating memes that showed his disarming wit and pop-culture savvy. He prayed that it was just a phase, but around sixteen or seventeen he came to accept it. He moved in with his father, a gospel singer, north of the city in Austell, Georgia. He attended the University of West Georgia for one year before dropping out to pursue a musical career. He stayed with his sister and supported himself with jobs at Zaxby’s restaurants and the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park. His parents divorced when he was six, and he settled in the Bankhead Courts housing project with his mom and grandmother in 2009. He said he began to isolate himself from ‘outside-of-class activities’ during his teen years. In a Rolling Stone interview he stated, ‘I was doing Facebook comedy videos, then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter… where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.’
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