Lil Nas X doesn’t fail to raise his genius creativity in his iconic recent single and music video “Industry Toddler,” that includes Jack Harlow and instant cameos from Jason Momoa and Colton Haynes, which is out at the present time (July 23).
The music video is decided following the events of the prelude trailer that detailed a fictitious court trial over his immoral Devil shoes. The “Archaic Town Aspect road” rapper is sentenced to 5 years in Montero Advise Jail for being homosexual, but it undoubtedly doesn’t pause him from working out with Momoa and busting moves naked within the penal complex showers or in a red jumpsuit within the penal complex yard.
Within the pre-chorus, Lil Nas X explicitly says this recent discover is a monumental “fuck you” to all his haters. “And this one is for the champions / I ain’t lost since I’ve began, yeah,” he sings. “Funny the trend you stated it was the pause, yeah / Then I went and did it again, yeah.”
We glance Harlow hand a reproduction of the Guide of Montero with a little pickaxe placed discreetly inner, which Lil Nas X makes express of to damage a hole in his cell wall to hatch an accumulate away idea. After creeping thru secret tunnels, he smacks a head security officer (Haynes), who was secretly watching the rapper’s “Montero (Name Me By Your Title)” video.
Harlow raps the 2d verse to dawdle fun at the scrutiny and notoriety of his profession. “It be too slack ’cause I am here to raise, and these ladies know that I am corrupt,” he raps. “I sent her support to her boyfriend with my handprint on her ass cheek.”
We in the end glance him strapped to a chair and electrocuted by Lil Nas X in an ironic upending of expectations, since now a straight guy rapping about ladies folk is being worried for his sexuality.
The video continues with the two rappers being photographed for their mugshots and Lil Nas X leading a colossal-scale choreo routine within the yard. Come the pause, Lil Nas X and his fellow inmates accumulate away on a bus as the solar rises earlier than the guards wake up.
Alongside the free up of “Industry Toddler,” Lil Nas X launched the Bail X Fund for the nonprofit group The Bail Finishing up, which promotes the abolition of cash bail and to purpose in paying bail for folk who are no longer financially able to doing so themselves.
“Song is the trend I fight for liberation. It’s my act of resistance,” he stated in a assertion. “Nonetheless I moreover know that exact freedom requires right alternate in how the criminal justice scheme works. Beginning with cash bail. This isn’t honest theoretical for me. It’s personal. I do know the difficulty that incarceration brings to a family. And I do know the disproportionate influence that cash bail has on Gloomy American citizens.”
Excellent earlier than “Industry Toddler” dropped, Lil Nas X posted a touching personal letter to his 20-12 months-outdated self to indulge in with all his achievements, esteem he did earlier than “Montero.” Have some tissues.
Lil Nas X is expected to debut his stout-dimension album Montero sometime this summer, even though a free up date is yet to be announced.
