No shame in his game.
Lil Nas X candidly told concertgoers in Atlanta on Thursday that they needed to go to the bathroom.
“I’m backstage, and this isn’t part of the show, but I’m being mean, so please forgive me,” the rapper said, pointing out that he only “needed a minute or two.” ‘ on the toilet.
“I’ll be right back,” the 23-year-old Grammy winner promised in a viral video filmed by an audience member.
On Friday, the songwriter took to Twitter to clarify that he wasn’t kidding about postponing a deuce.
“lmao people really thought I was kidding,” he tweeted. “I was literally there dropping demons into that toilet.”
The “Old Town Road” singer kicked off his “Long Live Montero” tour last month, making headlines for his response to “street Ministry” protesters outside his September 18 show in Boston.
“So people [sic] protested my concert last night,” Lil Nas X wrote via TikTok. “So we brought them pizza.”
The American Music Award winner went on to say that “one of the homophobes was hot” and that he “accidentally fell in love with one of the homophobic protesters.”
Lil Nas X, which came out in June 2019, has faced hate and online bullying about his sexuality.
In March 2021, he defended the “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” video, in which he twerked on Satan and tweeted that he didn’t want to “worry” children with his work.
“Every week there is a mass shooting that our government is doing nothing to stop,” he said tweeted at the time. ‘I’m sliding off a CGI pole, that’s not what destroys society.
“All my teenage years I hated myself for you preaching that would happen to me because I was gay,” the musician continued. “So I hope you’re angry, stay angry, feel the same anger you teach us to have against ourselves.”
Amid the controversy, Adam Lambert, Elizabeth Banks, FKA Twigs and more celebrities praised the daring music video.