Lil Xan is a rapper that you should know!
Lil Xan is known for his different opoinios about life and he is also Noah Cyrus’s boyfriend!
These are some facts you should know about him:
- His real name is Diego Leanos.
- He was born on September 6, 1996.
- He is from Redlands, California.
- Lil Xan is Mexican.
- He attended Redlands East Valley High School, but dropped out of high school in his freshman year, and spent several years at home unemployed.
- Before he started rapping, he worked as a street cleaner and sold drugs.
- After those two jobs, he pursued a photography career in support of several friends who were rappers.
- He started rapping after his camera was stolen.
- He started getting recognition through platforms such as SoundCloud and YouTube.
- His song “Betrayed” came out in August 2017 and gave him popularity .
- In his album Total Xanarchy we see collaborations with artists such as Diplo and Swae Lee.
- In 2018, Leanos announced that he would change his stage name to “Diego” in order to support his anti-drug message.
- After the announcement about his stage name, he thought about it and said in an interview he was not sure if he would change his name.
- Pharrell Williams and N.E.R.D ,Arctic Monkeys, Cage the Elephant and Queens of the Stone Age are some of his influences when it comes to music.
- The New Yorker has described Leanos as part of a “sad rap” movement.
- He made headlines in 2018 when during an interview he rated the late rapper Tupac Shakur only a “2” [out of 9] and called his music boring.
- On June 30, 2018 he started dating singer and actress Noah Cyrus.
- Lil Xan was addicted to Xanax, along with opiates and other benzodiazepines, but he was managed to quit the drug after two years of addiction. Nowsays he speaks out against Xanax abuse and urges people to stop using the drug altogether.
