The account was suspended by Twitter due to "violating spam policies". The investigation linked to the practice of "Tweetdecking", or using multiple accounts in collaboration to artificially make certain tweets go viral. In 2017, this account gained attention for its flash fiction-style interactive "scenario threads" popularized on Twitter using dashboard app TweetDeck. That was the first place where I could go viral." As of November 2021, Lil Nas X has: 7.4 million followers on Twitter 11.9 million followers on Instagram "16 million subscribers on YouTube, and over 64 million monthly listeners on Spotify." He posted short-format comedy videos on Facebook and Vine.ĭuring this period, he reportedly created and ran Nicki Minaj fan accounts on Twitter, including one called according to a New York Magazine investigation. 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. He spent large amounts of time online in hopes of building a following as an internet personality to promote his work, but was unsure what to focus on creatively. Hill said he began to isolate himself from "outside-of-class activities" during his teenage years. In September 2019 he revisited his high school to perform a surprise concert. During this time, he stayed with his sister and supported himself with jobs at Zaxby's restaurants and the Six Flags Over Georgia theme park.
He attended the University of West Georgia for one year before dropping out to pursue a musical career. He attended Lithia Springs High School and graduated in 2017. He began 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, "particularly Twitter, creating memes that showed his disarming wit and pop-culture savvy." His teenage years also saw him struggling with his coming out to himself as being gay he prayed that it was just a phase, but around sixteen or seventeen he came to accept it. Although initially reluctant to leave, he later regarded it as an important decision: "There's so much shit going on in Atlanta-if I would have stayed there, I would have fallen in with the wrong crowd." He started "using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment" about when he was thirteen. Three years later, he moved in with his father, a gospel singer, north of the city in Austell, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was six, and he settled in the Bankhead Courts housing project with his mother and grandmother.
He was named after the Mitsubishi Montero. Montero Lamar Hill was born in Lithia Springs, Georgia, a small city outside Atlanta, on April 9, 1999.
Nas X was the most-nominated male artist at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, where he ultimately won awards for Best Music Video and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. In 2020, he released the single "Holiday", which peaked at number 37 on the Hot 100. Following the success of "Old Town Road", Nas X released his debut extended play, titled 7, which spawned two further singles, with "Panini" peaking at number five and "Rodeo" peaking at number 22 on the Hot 100. Nas X came out as gay while "Old Town Road" was atop the Hot 100, becoming the only artist to do so while having a number-one record. Several remixes of the song were released, the most popular of which featured country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. "Old Town Road" spent 19 weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, becoming the longest-running number-one song since the chart debuted in 1958.
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 before climbing music charts internationally and becoming diamond certified by November of that same year. Montero Lamar Hill (born April 9, 1999), known by his stage name Lil Nas X (/nɑːz/ NAHZ), is an American superstar, rapper, singer, songwriter, and internet personality. Education Lithia Springs High School, University of West Georgia