Has Lil Nas X taken his horse down the road to hell?
The debut of the 21-year-old rapper’s NSFW music video for his …
Has Lil Nas X taken his horse down the road to hell? The debut of the 21-year-old rapper’s NSFW music video for his new single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” laden with biblical imagery which challenges Christian doctrines on sex and homosexuality, has — unsurprisingly — sparked a new wave of “Satanic panic” among conservative parents. The raunchy video opens with the queer artist in repose on some Garden of Eden-like plane of existence before he’s caught fraternizing with a sinful snake and evidently banished to hell — choosing a stripper pole as his preferred mode of transportation down into the underworld. There, he’s met by a jacked, Satanic zaddy, who takes Lil Nas X as a personal sex slave. The video closes with Lil Nas X — whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill — performing a deliciously wicked lap dance for Lucifer. The video premiere was shortly followed by news that the “Old Town Road” rapper had also collaborated with creative agency MSCHF on a diabolic version of Nike’s Air Max 97 — though, Nike has distanced itself from the devilish duds. The blasphemous sneakers feature a pentagram pendant, a holy symbol for Pagans, and a promise that the bright red shoes were imbued with a single drop of human blood. “Luke 10:18” is inscribed on the side of the [shoe] — a reference to the Bible verse: “He replied, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven’,” according to the New International Version. Priced at $1,018, only 666 — the so-called “number of the beast” — were to be made available for purchase starting Monday.
