No shame in his game.
Lil Nas X frankly told concert-goers in Atlanta mid-show on Thursday that they needed a bathroom break.
“I’m backstage, and that’s sort of not a part of the show, but I take it meanly, so please forgive me,” the rapper said, noting that it only took him “a minute or two” on the bathroom.
“I’ll be right back,” the 23-year-old Grammy winner promised in a viral video filmed by a viewer.
On Friday, the songwriter took to Twitter to clarify that he wasn’t joking about delaying a two.
“People really thought I was joking,” he said tweeted. “I was literally back there throwing demons in that toilet.”
The “Old Town Road” singer kicked off his “Long Live Montero” tour last month and made headlines for his response to “Street Ministry” protesters outside his Boston show on Sept. 18.
“So folks [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 write that “one of the homophobes was hot” and he “accidentally fell in love with one of the homophobic protesters.”
Lil Nas X, which came out in June 2019, has faced hatred and online bullying over his sexuality.
Lil Nas X’s Long Live Montero tour kicked off in September. Getty Images for The Recording A
In March 2021, he defended the video “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” in which he twerked about Satan, tweeting that he didn’t want his work to “target” children.
“There’s a mass shooting every week that our government doesn’t do anything about,” he said tweeted back then. “Slipping off a CGI pole isn’t what destroys society.
“I spent my entire teenage years hating myself because what you preached would happen to me because I’m gay,” he said continued. “So I hope you’re angry, stay angry, feel the same anger you teach us to have at ourselves.”
Amid the controversy, Adam Lambert, Elizabeth Banks, FKA Twigs and more celebrities praised the daring music video.