Lil Nas X

Montero Lamar Hill (born: ), better known on stage as Lil Nas X, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter who is best known for his single "".
==Early life ==
Before living up to his celebrity name Lil Nas X, Montero Lamar Hill was born in Lithia Springs, Georgia on April 9, 1999. His parents divorced when he was at age six. After his parents' divorce, he settled at the Bankhead Courts housing project with his mother and grandmother. Three years later, he moved in with his father, a gospel singer, at Austell, Georgia.
When Hill turned thirteen, he spent much of his teenage life alone, constantly using the internet and using social media sites such as Twitter. Hill graduated from Lithia Springs High School in 2017. He attended the University of West Georgia for one year until dropping out to pursue a musical career. During this time, he stayed with his sister and worked jobs at Zaxby's and Six Flags.
== Musical career==
===7 EP===
On December 3, 2018, Lil Nas X released "" as a single. A music video remixed and featuring Billy Ray Cyrus was released on YouTube on July 18, 2019. The remix was certified 14x platinum on January 2021, becoming the highest certification of any music track up to date. The music video on YouTube has over 600 million views as of up to date. Three days later, on July 21, 2019, Lil Nas X released his extended play titled . The EP included eight tracks, including both versions of Old Town Road (the original version and remix featuring Billy Ray Cyrus) as well. In October 2019, he released the music video for his song "" which became one of his biggest music videos. Later that year, he would release the remix of the song "" with Nas and would also be nominated for the 2020 Grammys with also the music video for "Rodeo" being released in February 2020.
==Controversies==
===Anti-Christian allegations===
====J Christ====
The second time was around November 2023, after Lil Nas X posted a tweet asking if people are fine with him entering his "Christian era", which contained a video of a song's snippet in which the lyrics allegedly mock God. Later on January 2024, Lil Nas X was met with more backlash after posting teasers for his song titled "", which featured Lil Nas X posing on the cross for the single cover, a video of him nailed on the cross which then turns into a Transformer-like figure, and another video, which is the most controversial out of the three promos, featuring him drinking holy water and eating sacramental bread, which are symbolisms to and Christianity, in an impolite way. Lil Nas X defended the single cover, such as retweeting tweets saying that several singers like Kanye West had depicted themselves similar to Jesus before.
On January 12, his song "J Christ" and its music video was released, and it was met with tons of backlash, such as the lyrics which contain the phrase "Back-back-back up out the grave site, bitch, I'm built like J Christ", and its infamous music video, which features a scene of Lil Nas X being crucified like , and several other biblical depictions being shown in the music video, such as heading a bunch of animals to . As of now, the music video has around 256,000 dislikes in a dislike ratio of around 43%https://www.globalvillagespace.com/lil-nas-xs-j-christ-sparks-controversy-with-bold-biblical-imagery/. Lil Nas X had since issued an apology following the massive controversy, saying that he didn't meant to disrespect Jesus and His religion Christianity.https://variety.com/2024/music/news/lil-nas-x-issues-apology-j-christ-single-evil-demon-guy-1235872446/
== Discography ==
* (2021)
== Tours ==
* (2022–23)
==Trivia==
*He is openly gay/bisexual.https://web.archive.org/web/20230212022329/https://www.out.com/celebs/2023/1/13/lil-nas-x-tweets-about-possibly-being-little-bisexualhttps://web.archive.org/web/20190701091253/https://pitchfork.com/news/lil-nas-x-comes-out-as-gay/
*He originally owned a Nicki Minaj fan account before he became known for .https://web.archive.org/web/20190903195758/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/lil-nas-x-tweetdecker-old-town-road
*He has two brothers, Lamarco & Tramon Hill, as well as 3 half-brothers, Robert Sleepy, Jamal Newsome, Labrock Anderson. Also, he has two older half-sisters: Bianca & Shaquisha Hill.
*He has a rivalry with singer Doja Cat.
*He is 6'2" (188 centimeters) tall.
*He has two Bernese Mountain Dogs.https://mashable.com/article/lil-nas-x-adopts-dogs
*He visited the Dream SMP to build a treehouse.
*He had a Roblox concert event on November 2020.
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