Was Lil Nas X in the military? Celebrities are not any strangers to maintaining rumors that involve their names, and this one is not any exception.
Celebrity rumors are weird, and it is tough to find out how some of them started. They range from absolutely unbelievable to ones that stars make up themselves, like Robert Pattinson mendacity about seeing a clown die while at the circus.
Then there are mundane and plausible ones, like the rumor that Lil Nas X was once in the military.
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So, was Lil Nas X ever in the military? Nope.
The "Old Town Road" singer has been, for the most phase, at all times an entertainer or potential full-time tune artist, and in keeping with CelebAnswers, has never served in the military. The young guy was born in 1999, making him still an adolescent when his hit single debuted and introduced him into superstardom.
Many believed that the track, which combined parts of country and hip-hop, would make Lil Nas X a one-hit-wonder, nevertheless it seemingly laid the blueprint for the singer's profession.
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"Old Town Road" is a pop sensation that may have simplest taken an hour to document, nevertheless it also sampled a Nine Inch Nails song (which earned Trent Reznor a Grammy) and contained nation parts.
One would assume that this may earn it a place on the country tune charts.
However, the country powers that be no doubt did not agree, and Lil Nas X's tune was removed from the record, which angered quite a lot of people on Twitter. Some cited racism for the track being pulled.
It also didn't lend a hand those that supported "Old Town Road's" removal from the ones charts when Billy Ray Cyrus showed up on the remix to the track and was even heavily featured in the viral track video, which, as of this writing has greater than 710 million YouTube views.
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So why do other folks assume that Lil Nas X joined the military? It has to do with a photograph he shared.
After seeing Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop's review of his "7" album EP and seeing that he gained a 6.Five for his efforts, Lil Nas X tweeted a photograph of him dressed in military fatigues with the caption: "Me quitting music and joining the military after u gave me a 6.5."
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Obviously, it was a tongue-in-cheek reaction to the review, but it surely confirmed a pretty mature and web-conscious approach for the rapper to answer the less-than-favorable overview. Some commenters discussed that Nas X scored nearly as high as Kendrick Lamar's "Damn" from the identical reviewer and that the critic had in reality scored "7" higher than a up to date effort via Kanye West.
Literally higher than Ye
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Fantano is referred to as being an excessively harsh critic, and he seems to have since deleted his tweet after seeing Lil Nas X's response to his EP. Since the liberate of "7," Nas X has gone directly to make much more controversial strikes, like the unencumber of his restricted version Satan Nike sneakers as a method of drumming up hype around his "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)" monitor.
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In the video, he makes out with various versions of himself in a slew of biblical and period-piece sets and even provides the satan a lap dance. So bring to mind it as another version of Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.
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