“Especially around my teenage years. I was just like praying, praying, praying,' Lil Nas X tells Gayle King (via toofab)
He also says his success after coming out is"messing" with him because"in school right now, it's like, 'You gay 'cause you listening to him.'"came out as gay via his song "C7osure" and a subsequent confirmation tweet, but the journey to making that announcement was not an easy one.asked the 20-year-old record-breaker in a sneak peek of Tuesday's "CBS This Morning.
"Definitely. I knew," the "Old Town Road" rapper replied. "Especially around my teenage years. I was just like praying, praying, praying.""That it was like a phase, [that it would] go away," Lil Nas X, real name Montero Lamar Hill, revealed.
"I think it's always gonna help," he explained. "We still have a long way to go because it's not like everybody... It's like messing with me now because, of course, somebody who's like listening to me in school right now, it's like, 'You gay 'cause you listening to him.' There's still a lot to be done, of course, but I do believe it's helping.
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