After
releasing his much discussed video for "Industry Baby," Lil Nas X is
ready to drop his entire album. In a new teaser trailer, where he refers to
himself as a power bottom, the star has announced that his debut album, Montero,
will release on September 17.
"Creating
this album has been therapy for me," the star wrote to Twitter when
sharing the trailer. "I've learned to let go of trying to control people's
perception of who I am, what I can do, and where I will be. I've realized the
only opinion of me that really matters is my own."
The clip picks
up after the events of "Industry Baby." The rapper and singer is
playing the long game, having pulled a through line from the roll out of his
"Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" track through to this moment. During
that initial drop he released a selection of Satan Sneakers that got him sued
by Nike. He parodied the suit, mocking
up his teaser for "Industry Baby" as a court date in that trial.
In the following video, he
was in jail at Montero State Prison where he staged a breakout after dropping
the soap in the showers. The new teaser picks up after the escape.
"Breaking
news, power bottom 'rapper' Lil Nas X and his Caucasian friend led a prison
escape this morning," Nas X said, playing the role of Montero News Network
anchor. The friend was "Industry Baby" collaborator Jack Harlow.
"This comes just months after the talentless homosexual was sentenced to
five years in prison. Investigators say that anybody that comes into contact
with the power bottom should contact authorities. Immediately."
What follows
is Nas X riding on some old town road while a previously unheard song plays on
the radio. "Need a boy who can cuddle with me all night," he sings on
what is presumed to be his next single. "Keep me warm, love me long, give
me sunlight. Tell me lies, we can argue, we can fight, yeah we did it before
but we'll do it tonight."
As Tre'vell
Anderson wrote
in our cover story about Lil Nas X, "Montero, the album,
promises to document what Freshwater author Akwaeke Emezi
calls 'the unfolding of a self,' the process by which Nas continues to glow up
into a living affirmation for countless Black queer artists claiming space in
industries from which we’ve been erased and excluded, and Black LGBTQ+ people
and beyond in communities that don’t yet love us."
“I named the
album after myself because there are a lot of things I’ve been going through
and dealing with and wanting to say," Nas X said. "I wanted to let
sides of myself show that I’ve been afraid of people seeing for so long.”
His first
teaser video for the album was based off of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Instead, he
collaged the many personas he's taken on as Lil Nas X into the Montero
Cinematic Universe.
A week before
he releases his the album he will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards. He's
nominated for five awards and while he is likely to perform "Industry
Baby," one could hope he would also perform new music.
SOURCE: OUT DOT COM
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