Quotes by Lil Nas X - Page 1

I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.
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Legendary
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I was always making memes, and now I have music.
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Memes
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But music was never something I saw myself doing.
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Music Myself Doing
Saw
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I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.
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New Things
Always New Trying
Experimenting
Musically
New Always Trying
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I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.
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Doing Good
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Twitter can make a lot of things happen if you get enough retweets.
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Enough
Things Happen
Twitter
Happen
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I was just trying to fit into a certain spectrum. Just like, basic rap.
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Fit
Rap
Spectrum
Basic
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You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.
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Don't Care
Eye
Public Eye
Step
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I'm from Atlanta, but I don't really consider myself an 'Atlanta rapper.'
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Atlanta
Rapper
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In 2017, I enjoyed my time on the Internet more than doing things in real life.
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Enjoyed
My Time
Real Life
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I have my name, and I have a growing fan base, so I'm gonna do whatever I want.
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Base
Fan
Whatever
Fan Base
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I run a meme type of account on Twitter; I know what my audience is looking for.
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Audience
Type
Account
Twitter
Run
Meme
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I'm not, like - what's the word when you believe in a lot of magic? Superstitious.
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Superstitious
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In my music, I'm never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.
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Recreate
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My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
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Music
Dad
Gospel Music
Gospel
Name
He
His
Makes
Robert
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TikTok helped me change my life. TikTok brought my song to several different audiences at once.
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Different
Song
Life Change Me
Once
Me
Audiences
Brought
Helped
My Life
Several
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I believe whenever you're trying something new, it's always going to get some kind of bad reception.
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Reception
Something New
Trying
Always Believe I Believe
Bad
Some
Whenever
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Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.
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Care
Too Much
Life Your People
Really
Live
Much
Too
Fullest
Life Care People
Other
Potential
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For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.
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Blood
Georgia
Voice
Pretty
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The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.
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Atlanta
Chasing
Sound
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I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy. The likes and retweets - that was, like, a plus.
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Plus
Videos
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When I first started, I wasn't trying to go viral. I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy.
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Viral
Content
Liked
Videos
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Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.
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Different Genres
Growing Up
Always Growing Up Up
Aspects
Liked
Different Sounds
Genres
Sounds
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I told college I was gonna take a semester off, but I knew I was never going back. I felt like the walls were closing in on me.
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Closing
Semester
Me Never Back
Me Back Never
Gonna
Walls
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I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.
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Comfortable
Community
Doors
Hip Hop
Opening
People Feel More
Community People Feel
More People
The Doors
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But with country trap, I in no way want to take credit for that. I believe Young Thug would be one of the biggest pioneers in that.
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Credit
Pioneers
Believe I Believe Way
Trap
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I'm a fan of all genres of music. I have a few country songs I like. I'm not gonna say I'm a huge country fan, but, you know, I listen around.
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Genres
Music Country Know
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And whenever I do step away from the Internet or the music too long, it's like I have to slowly get back into myself to get back into the groove.
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Groove
Music Myself Long
Slowly
Whenever
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'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.
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Being There
Fed Up
Fed
Options
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My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to write to a beat that I'm not immediately loving.
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Force
Process
Writing Process
Actual
Beat
Immediately
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I'm like Twitter-famous, but in real life. Instead of your mentions, it's real people coming up to you. People shake your hand instead of liking your tweets.
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Real Life
Life Your People
Life People Real
Coming
Hand
Instead
Liking
Real People
Shake
Tweets
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'Old Town Road''s the peak of me doing whatever I want to do with music. I was like, 'This one is special,' and I promoted it heavily on my account on Twitter.
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Music Me Doing
Account
Peak
Promoted
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I feel like Drake is doing exactly what I plan on doing, just being sick for all of, what, a decade now? And just always being able to switch it up and never stay in one box.
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Always Feel Doing
Drake
Decade
Exactly What
Feel Doing Always
Switch
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I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to create the type of music I want. I was basically ignoring a lot of labels.
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Independent
Labels
Type
Figured
Ignoring
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I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.
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Instagram
Viral
Master
First Place
Videos
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I started using the Internet heavily right around the time when memes started to become their own form of entertainment. I started to get into every side of the Internet around 13-ish.
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Memes
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I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a 'lil' in front of his name, and that's funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.
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Rapper
Fan Base
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But the one thing I'll always know is that people don't know what they want until they get it. They didn't know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.
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Horse
One Thing
Song
Wanted
Did
Old
Road
Taking
The One Thing
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I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.
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Hilarious
Familiar
Moment Always Me
Downplay
Ironically
Topic
Videos
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Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can't no more' basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it's with you.
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Running
Horse
Little Things
Metaphorical
Running Away
Away
Basically
Old
Means
Having
Till
Town
Road
Ride
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Yeah, with 'NASARATI,' that was my first project. I really worked literally three days on it, writing on the beats and putting it together. I'm not saying that I don't love the mixtape, but it was really my first, first move in rap. I tried to make sure everything sound different, so you hear no two songs and think they sound alike.
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Beats
Rap
Yeah
Alike
Project
Literally
Putting
Tried
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