Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.
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.
I'm always going to be experimenting musically, trying new things.
I have my name, and I have a growing fan base, so I'm gonna do whatever I want.
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.
'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.
Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.
My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
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.
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.
I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.
I run a meme type of account on Twitter; I know what my audience is looking for.
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.
I was always making memes, and now I have music.
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.
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.
'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.
I believe whenever you're trying something new, it's always going to get some kind of bad reception.
In my music, I'm never going to force anything to try to recreate a moment or something.
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.
