Lil Nas Xis expecting — his debut albumMontero, that is.
Lil Nas X (né Montero Lamar Hill) tells PEOPLE exclusively that he came up with the idea to do the shoot after listening toMegan Thee Stallion’s verse on his new song “Dolla Sign Slime” for the first time.
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“I was like, ‘You know what? That’s actually brilliant,'” he continues. “So now we have this entire thing coming out, and it’s going to be amazing.”
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The timing of the photos coming out now also couldn’t have been better, as Lil Nas X just posted a spoof to Instagram on Monday ofDrake’sCertified Lover Boycover art featuring several pregnant women emojis with the difference being that his features pregnantmen.
“I was like, ‘There’s no way the universe is lining up this perfect for this to happen,” he says with a laugh.
Asked whether the album is an immaculate conception of sorts, Lil Nas X responds, “I guess I am the father as well as the mother.”
“But I guess the producers who worked on it are like the dads too,” he says, before giving it another thought: “Or maybe uncles.”
Monterowas largely created over the past year in lockdown. The creation of this new music, Lil Nas Xsaid on Twitterlast week, was “therapeutic.”
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Lil Nas X says he also learned through the creation of this album “to have full faith in myself.”
“The only person that really has to believe in me is myself,” he says. “It’s been a lot of self-affirmations this year that I probably would not have been able to do two years ago.”
“You’re getting a lot of stories about me,” he says. “You’re getting a lot of stories about my past and where I want to be in my love life. But they’re also a bop. I feel like I finally found a great balance between being as real as possible within my music and making a hit song.”
“I hope every single corner of the globe is reached with this album,” he says, before declaring, “It’s going to happen!”
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source: people.com
