Lil Nas X has taken the charts by storm with his hit single “Old Town Road”! The American rapper has an unprecedented success!
So let’s dive into some unknowns about him!
- His birth name is Montero Lamar Hill
- He was born in April 9, 1999
- His stage name is Lil Nas X
- Lil Nas X is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia
- He is best known for his country rap breakout single “Old Town Road”
- Which achieved viral popularity as part of the “Yeehaw Challenge”
- On the video sharing app TikTok
- “Old Town Road” peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100
- It was controversially removed from the Hot Country Songs after debuting at number 19
- His debut EP, 7, was released on June 21, 2019
- Montero Lamar Hill was born in Atlanta, Georgia
- His parents divorced when he was six
- And he settled in the Bankhead Courts housing project with his mother and grandmother
- Three years later he moved in with his father north of the city in Austell
- A suburb in Cobb County
- Although initially reluctant to leave, he later regarded it as an important decision
- He began playing trumpet in the fourth grade
- He was first chair by his junior high years
- But quit the instrument out of fear of looking uncool
- Hill attended Lithia Springs High School and graduated in 2017
- He studied for one year at the University of West Georgia before dropping out
- During this time, he stayed with his sister
- He supported himself with jobs at Zaxby’s and Six Flags
- Hill has said he began to isolate himself from “outside-of-class activities” during his teenage years
- He spent large amounts of time online in hopes of building a following as an internet personality to promote his work
- Creatively, he was unsure what to focus on
- He posted short-format comedy videos on Facebook and Vine
- He also created a Nicki Minaj fan account on Twitter
- The account’s name was “NasMaraj”
- Named after Nicki Minaj’s actual surname, Maraj
- As well as New York rapper Nas
- In 2015, he became known for his viral tweets and other fanpage, “FactsAboutNM”
- In 2017, his NasMaraj account gained attention for its interactive “scenario threads”
- These flash fiction-style threads were popularized on Twitter using the social media dashboard app TweetDeck
- But after media reports linked Hill to the “NasMaraj” account, he denied that he ran it
- On December 3, 2018, he released the country rap song “Old Town Road”
- The song went viral in early 2019 due to the “Yeehaw Challenge” meme on the social media app TikTok
- “Old Town Road” debuted at #83 on the Billboard Hot 100
- Later climbing to #1
- It also debuted on the Hot Country Songs chart at #19
- And Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs at #36
- Billboard controversially removed the song from the Hot Country songs chart in March 2019
- Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus has since supported Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” in a tweet
- And he is a featured vocalist in a remix of the song released in April 2019
- On April 16, 2019, it was announced that Lil Nas X had broken Drake’s record for the most US streams in one week
- “Old Town Road” had 143 million streams for the week ending April 11
- Surpassing Drake’s “In My Feelings”, which had 116.2 million streams in one week in July 2018
- On June 23, 2019, Lil Nas X performed with Billy Ray Cyrus at the 2019 BET Awards
- His next single is called Panini
- It made its debut on June 20, 2019
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