Montero Lamar Hill, known by his stage name Lil Nas X, is an American rapper and singer.

The most well-known song by Lil Nas X is “Old Town Road,” a country rap song that went viral in early 2019 before becoming successful internationally and earning a diamond certification by November of the same year. The song became the longest-running number-one song since 1958 after spending 19 weeks at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. As the only musician to come out as homosexual when the song was at the top of the Hot 100, Lil Nas X made the announcement.
Nas released a number of other popular singles after this triumph, including “Panini,” “Rodeo – Cardi B & Nas,” “Industry Baby ft. Jack Harlow,” and “That’s What I Want,” among many more. His first EP, “7,” and his first studio album, “Montero,” released in 2021, were both successful. At the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, Nas X had the most nominations of any male artist and took home the Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance honors.
“Old Town Road” earned him the American Music Award for Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song and two MTV Video Music Awards, including Song of the Year. He was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2020 and was named one of the 25 most important persons on the Internet by “Time” magazine in 2019. Additionally, he is the first black musician to win a Country Music Association award who is out gay.
Nas disclosed that he started to avoid “outside-of-class activities” in his teens between 2015 and 2017. He started devoting a lot of time to cultivating an influential following in order to market his work, but his inventiveness remained unsure. In an interview with the Rolling Stone, he talks about making comedic videos on Facebook before switching to Instagram and Twitter, which he eventually mastered.
Twitter is “the first place where I could go viral,” according to him.Additionally, he posted little comedic videos on Vine and Facebook. According to New York Magazine, he set up and maintained “NasMaraj” and other Nicki Minaj fan identities on Twitter. The account became well-known in 2017 for its interactive “scenario threads” in the form of flash fiction, which were made popular on Twitter by the dashboard program TweetDeck.NasMaraj was connected to the “Tweetdecking” activity, which involves creating several accounts to fictitiously increase the number of tweets that become viral.
Twitter suspended the “NasMaraj” account for “violating spam policies.” Nas turned his attention to music in 2018 and began penning and recording songs. In honor of the rapper Nas, he adopted the moniker Lil Nas X.Lil Nas posted his debut mixtape, Nasarati, to SoundCloud on July 24, 2018. Due to a copyright dispute, Nasarati was taken down from streaming providers following the release of Old Town Road. He chance to hear the beat that would eventually become “Old Town Road” in late October 2018.