Nas became a star virtually overnight with his breakout single “Old Town Road,” which sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 for nearly five months in 2019, an all-time record. We don’t wanna know what happens behind closed doors, or we don’t want you to express that.’”
Let’s not include anything sexual.’ It’s like, ‘Be gay without being gay. “It’s always been, ‘OK, if you’re gay, this needs to be sanitized. “I feel like I’m definitely much more ‘out there’ with it,” he told CBS Sunday Morning. The openly gay rapper Lil Nas X in a recent interview said the music industry expects artists that are part of the LGBTQ+ community to “sanitize” their identities - something he refuses to do. Nas also celebrates his identity with his gender-fluid fashion and said he wants every artist to feel comfortable expressing themselves, regardless of who they are.Nas has built his career around being his most authentic self, and his recent album “Montero” features songs about his real life as a gay man.The music industry often expects queer artists to refrain from referencing their sexuality too explicitly in their work, rapper Lil Nas X said in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning.
