Lil Nas X reached the top again.
On Monday, the 21-year-old rapper ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ debuted at number 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 card, just over a week after releasing the highly anticipated song and music video. This is his second number 1 single after gaining notoriety with ‘Old Town Road’, which topped the hit list in 2019 for 19 weeks.
Lil Nas X responded to the news on Twitter and reflected on the past two years – and the people who dismissed him as a one-hit wonder.
“You told a 19-year-old who had just escaped the lowest point of his life that he would never get a hit again. You told him to stop while he was ahead,” the rapper wrote. . “he could have given up. but 4 multi-platinum songs and 2 # 1s later he’s still here.”
He follows up on some airy tweets.
And a very sweet video he made in 2020 for his future self.
“Congratulations,” a younger Lil Nas X says to himself. “You deserve all the good shit that’s happening to you right now.”
When he released ‘Montero’, which is the rapper’s legal name, he mailed a note to his 14-year-old self, who has yet to come out as gay, saying he hopes the song ‘will open the doors for many other strangers to simply exist’.
“You see it’s very scary for me, people will be angry, they will say I have an agenda going on,” he wrote. “but the truth is: it’s me. the agenda is to keep people from other people’s lives and stop dictating who they should be.”
Since its release, the Montero music video has drawn criticism from some, including conservative politicians, for its satanic images and explicit sexual undertones, of which Lil Nas X has had no shortage.
After ending up at the top of the charts on Monday, he had a specific message to the haters: “I want your tears to fill my grammy cup.”