Lil Nas X has covered GQ's 26th annual Men of the Year issue. In the cover story, Nas X discussed DaBaby's homophobic Rolling Loud comments, saying, “I’m not going to lie, I feel bad for DaBaby. I hope he grows from it. I hope he’s able to. But I don’t know.”
He continued, “The whole landscape is very hypermasculine. It’s so great and so amazing that all these female rappers are breaking through. And, in a way, female rappers are the biggest rappers right now.”
He also discussed Drake and Nicki Minaj turning down the chance to work with him on his debut album, saying, “I don’t usually ask for features like that. But for every feature I did ask for on this album, like, every single one of them worked…besides Drake and Nicki Minaj.”He added, “I didn’t ask them directly. I wanted Nicki on “Industry Baby,” and I wanted Drake on “Dolla Sign Slime,” with Megan Thee Stallion. Yeah, but you know, I feel like things always work out. Jack Harlow ended up being, like, the best option. I’m not sure how comfortable Nicki would have felt with that video or whatnot.”
LIL NAS X EXPLAINS WHY HE DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW HE WAS A NICKI MINAJ FAN
Lil Nas X also explained that he never wanted people to know that he ran a Nicki Minaj fan page because they would find out that he was gay. He said, “It was so much anxiety. Like, I literally felt like, Oh, my God, this is like a setup. And I’m going to die soon. It was much darker in my head than people were probably seeing. And it was also like, D*mn, I’ve been working hard, like not sleeping, and I just made it to the music industry, and this is going to ruin everything for me.”
When asked to clarify if he meant being gay or running a Nicki fan account was going to harm his career he said, “Both. Mainly being gay. That was the main thing I was most afraid of.”