Nas wrote the whole treatment for this video and I followed his lead every step of the way. If he had asked me to be in that shower scene I woulda been in that shower scene. Harlow also responded, writing that “Nas wrote the whole treatment for this video and I followed his lead every step of the way. that’s why i teamed up with to create the Bail X Fund. and the disproportionate impact that cash bail has on the black community. On a serious note, i know the pain that incarceration brings to a family. “on a serious note, i know the pain that incarceration brings to a family. got it?”ĭespite the entertaining visuals within the prison-set video, there’s a serious message underlying it, and Nas circled back to that in a followup tweet.
Lil Nas X offered his response: “lemme explain. Lil Nas X has poked fun at the controversy that erupted in March over his limited edition 'Satan Shoes' by putting himself on trial in a video promoting his newest single. “But all the Black men are sexually engaging with each other,” the tweet added. RELATED: Lil Nas X Drops NSFW Music Video For New Song ‘Industry Baby’ Featuring Jack Harlow And the lone white man, Jack Harlow is sexually involved with a FEMALE guard,” wrote the Twitter user. On Saturday, the “Old Town Road” rapper responded to a tweet that wrote, “White corporate music execs funded a music video with Lil Nas X, where a bunch of Black men are in prison twerking.
As he becomes bolder in his lyrics and creative vision, Lil Nas X begins to transcend confines of "The Gay Rapper" stereotype, carving out space for himself as an unapologetic messiah for today's young, queer generation.Lil Nas X has never been shy about speaking his mind, and he has plenty to say to critics of his new NSFW music video for “Industry Baby”, his new collab with Jack Harlow. However, when considering Lil Nas X's career path, Montero State Prison is a setting that mirrors reality as he is repeatedly criticized by evangelical Christians and Twitter trolls alike for elevating gay representation - particularly for the prison's namesake, his last single " MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" - it's understandable Lil Nas X would consider homophobia a prison, claustrophobic and imposing, especially in the music industry. Because of structural violence inherent in this country's carceral system, positioning the institution as a gay utopia is a risky choice. SHAPIRO: Jazmine Hughes is a staff writer for The New York. (CNN)Lil Nas X, the 22-year-old juggernaut known by most for 'Old Town Road,' is in prison.He's in the shower, naked - save for some humble pixelation - and twerking, surrounded by eight male. The song is one of his best, but its real power comes from the accompanying, highly-stylized video wherein Lil Nas X breaks out of a prison populated with Black gay men (and, for an unspecified reason, Jack Harlow in an unseemly role as the Straight White Savior who delivers a verse that is mid at best and inappropriate at worst). But what Lil Nas X does is he makes gay sex just as part of his entire persona as a, you know, name literally any straight pop star ever. His latest single, "INDUSTRY BABY," is an exercise in braggadocio a triumphant, horn-driven beat from Kanye West and Take A Daytrip backs up bars like "Couple Grammys on him, couple plaques," altogether crowning the "Old Town Road'' hitmaker king of the rap-pop crossover throne. Lil Nas X is unprecedented: he emerged from the depths of stan Twitter to take over the pop charts, all the while growing as an unabashedly gay rapper.