In the past, he would cry himself to sleep over this sort of thing. He tried to remind himself that “no matter what I do or accomplish in this life or whatever, I’m never going to get everything I want.” Desires are aroused, wishes are made, but life trundles forward anyway, indifferent. You forget sometimes that people are, like, really loyal, and it’s like, I want to do that.” “I was like, Damn, you’re that loyal?” he told me. Nas respected the honesty a lot of people just throw themselves at him. The target respectfully knocked that shot out of the air: This person was so flattered by the attention, but they had a boyfriend.
So he shot his shot, sending a message to someone he had been chatting with online. He had performed on freakin’ “S.N.L.”! He felt great. Aside from the wardrobe mishap, the show felt amazing. The ripped pants, it turns out, weren’t even the worst thing to happen to him that night. He tweeted, “Stop asking me why I’m wearing a skirt I will never trust pants again!” That Monday, he showed up at “The Tonight Show” in a kilt. In one, he compared it to an episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” wherein SpongeBob, too, rips his pants in front of everyone. The next day, he devoted three TikTok videos to his plight. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.” Nas wanted the laughs - and the views, the clicks, the attention - for himself. “When you slip on a banana peel,” the writer Nora Ephron liked to say, “people laugh at you. He grabbed his crotch and, for the remainder of the performance, held on for dear life. For a sheepish few seconds, you could see him calculating what to do next. His mouth formed a perfect “O” of shock, as he awkwardly covered his private parts. In the final minute of the “S.N.L.” performance, Nas was grinding on the stripper pole, thrusting with all his might, when he felt a sudden, unexpected breeze. Now, in 2021, he had achieved the unthinkable, a feat only dreamed of by some of his peers who had gone from anonymity to the top of the charts - he made another hit song, and a brazenly gay one at that.īut in live TV, as in sex, something always goes wrong. It was in the midst of this success, with his “Old Town Road” in its 17th-straight week as the No.1 song in the country, that he came out as gay. All of this was a far cry from how audiences had been introduced to Nas three years earlier, as a spindly teenager in a cowboy hat who’d just dropped out of college and, somehow, ended up releasing the biggest song in the world. At one point, one of them took a lascivious ice cream lick out of the side of Nas’s neck, the singer biting his lip in satisfaction. When they turned around, slits cut into the top of their tight vinyl pants showed off juicy slices of butt. Dancers in studded collars gyrated around one another, tracing fingers down glistening chests or pumping their bodies between the singer’s legs. A stripper pole, flanked by demons, stood in the middle of the stage. Two weeks earlier, Nas performed “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” the first single from his forthcoming album, on “Saturday Night Live.” The song is about one man’s lust for another, and its stage performance - derived from the song’s video, in which the singer gives Satan a lap dance - was an all-male leather orgy, diluted just enough to be shown on broadcast television. Minutes later, my pastrami sandwich arrived.
“It looks like somebody got bored and just murdered any animal and skinned it alive,” he said, disgusted.
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We sat in a booth beneath a series of framed portraits of sandwiches, overstuffed with cuts of meat. At one point, our server, assuming we were on a date, chastised the singer for looking at his phone.
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Free from the shackles of celebrity respectability - who would recognize him here, among all these khaki pants? - we got increasingly silly, eventually conducting a brief conversation entirely in fart noises. īecause the Chateau Marmont was closed, and the Sunset Tower Hotel stopped serving food 15 minutes earlier, and the food at SoHo House wasn’t even that good anyway, Lil Nas X and I ended up eating lunch in a mostly empty Jewish deli in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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