Lil Nas X will perform at the Grammys with BTS_twt, Billy Ray Cyrus and Diplo
“Culturally, ‘Old Town Road’ brought people together, which is important in these divisive times,” says Perry. “And musically, it moved us toward a genre-less world.”
As did securing Nas’ dream duet partner: Billy Ray Cyrus, something that Leber, longtime manager of Miley and Noah Cyrus, and Perry facilitated. With, the “Old Town Road” remix dropped on April 4 and catapulted straight into the pop-culture zeitgeist. Ironic considering that Lil Nas X is himself groundbreaking. Although he used to date women when he was younger, Nas came out publicly on June 30, the last day of Pride month in 2019. “It could have gone either way,” he says of the reaction to his announcement, which nearly broke the Internet. But then this is an an artist whose career was built on taking risks, not playing it safe.
Musa confesses that at first she was reluctant to work with Nas. “When I saw his Instagram, I couldn’t figure him out,” she says. “I was raised in Europe so I have different associations than Americans. To me, a cowboy is somebody from the South that doesn’t like people that look like me. The Western movies I saw when I was little didn’t include black people so I couldn’t relate to the cowboy aesthetic — that’s why we’ve been playing with it.
Nas also credits a series of losses as invaluable life lessons. “So much happened during my rise,” he says, referring to the deaths of Nipsey Hussle, XXXTentacion and Juice Wrld. “You know, drugs and murders. And my grandmother passing [in 2018]— she was the first person close to me who died. It was devastating. And it made me a hypochondriac: I’d wake up, heart racing. It was scary.” That led to a period of self-medicating — “smoking [weed] heavily,” he admits.
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