Lil Nas X is showing us how to be the best kind of troll: One who uses their powers for good. The agenda to make people stay the fuck out of other people’s lives and stop dictating who they should be.”
“People will be angry, they will say I’m pushing an agenda. “I know we promised to never come out publicly, I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die with the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist,” he wrote. And before the release of “Montero,” he shared an emotional letter to his 14-year-old self. While his prison video is all outrageous fun, it doubles as a fundraiser for The Bail Project that has raised over $52,000 as of this writing. ( Fellow rapper Tekashi 69 is another, infamous example.) But he’s not just a social media pro - he’s also a gay, Black man using the internet to promote the very art he needed as a frightened, closeted kid.
Lil Nas certainly isn’t the first celebrity to use online controversy to promote his music.
