Nearly a month later, the 20-year-old rapper reflected on his Billboard record in a Twitter post on July 29.
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He zoomed into the rainbow buildings in an image he posted on Twitter and said, “Deadass thought I made it obvious.” That same day, Lil Nas X also pointed out that his debut EP, which came out on June 21, featured art showing rainbow colors in a skyline. In that song, he says, “Ain’t no more actin’, man that forecast say I should just let me grow,” and, “This is what I gotta do, can’t be regrettin’ when I’m old.” “But before this month ends I want y’all to listen closely to c7osure,” which is a song featured on his debut EP, “7”. “Some of y’all already know, some of y’all don’t care, some of y’all not gone fwm no more,” he wrote on June 30.
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In the midst of the song’s record-breaking success - and on the final day of Pride month - Lil Nas X opted to share details about his sexuality on Twitter and appeared to admit that he was prepared to lose supporters due to his sexual orientation. The categorization of “Old Town Road” became a major topic of controversy in March when Billboard pulled it from its “country” list, saying it did not “embrace enough elements of today’s country music to chart in its current version.” But Lil Nas X, an Atlanta native who frequently dons a cowboy hat, subsequently unveiled a new version of the song featuring Billy Ray Cyrus, helping to boost it to the top charts. The song’s earth-shattering rise did not come without bumps along the way.