“Grammy-winning rapper Lil Nas X flips the world of hip-hop on its head with seemingly everything he does. With his record-breaking debut single “Old Town Road,” he pushed the hybrid sound of country rap to the top of the Billboard charts for months,” writes Chris Malone Méndez at Forbes.
With “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” the lead single from his upcoming debut album released earlier this year, he directly challenged the homophobia prevalent in hip-hop by celebrating his queerness in ways never seen before.
And now – Lil Nas’ latest single, “Industry Baby,” takes aim at those who questioned his success at every point along the way.
The music video opens with Lil Nas X being sentenced to five years in Montero State Prison, ostensibly for the crime of homosexuality, writes Chris Malone Méndez at Forbes. “As an inmate, he asserts his dominance in the facility, commanding groups of dancers in the showers and prison yard and knocking out correctional officers. And him not being one to pass up an opportunity to turn his words into action, he partnered with the non-profit organization The Bail Project to raise money with the goal of ending cash bail in the US.”
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