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Kid Cudi is on TeamMontero.
Lil Nas Xis featured as one ofTime’s 100 most influential people of 2021— andKid Cudiwrote a touching tribute for the hip-hop star, who Cudi credits as a trailblazer for gay and Black men in the genre.
“Lil Nas X is a new twist on some of the themes I was riding on when I first started out: being true to yourself and not giving a f— what anyone says,” Cudi, 37, wrote. “What he’s doing is what we need right now. To have a gay man in hip-hop doing his thing, crushing records—that is huge for us and for Black excellence.”
“The way he’s unafraid to make people uncomfortable is so rock ‘n’ roll. He’s a true rock star,” Cudi added.
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In hisTime 100piece, he praised Lil Nas for the work he’s doing in defying stereotypes and going against all odds.
“There’s a homophobic cloud over hip-hop, and he’s going to break that s— down,” he wrote. “We have to stand with him. I’m going to do whatever I have to do to let him know—you have my support.”
“When we do our song together, however trippy the video is, let’s get sexy with it,” he concluded.
The newTime 100distinction comes just days before the singer is set to release his debut albumMontero.
“You’re getting a lot of stories about me,“he told PEOPLEearlier this month about the record. “You’re getting a lot of stories about my past and where I want to be in my love life. But they’re also a bop. I feel like I finally found a great balance between being as real as possible within my music and making a hit song.”
Lil Nas X added at the time that he also learned through the creation of this album “to have full faith in myself.”
“The only person that really has to believe in me is myself,” he says. “It’s been a lot of self-affirmations this year that I probably would not have been able to do two years ago.”
On the new record, Lil Nas X teamed up with Megan Thee Stallion on “Dolla Sign Slime,“Elton Johnfor “One of Me,“Miley Cyrusfor “Am I Dreaming” andDoja Catfor “Scoop” on the album.
“I hope every single corner of the globe is reached with this album,” he said, before declaring, “It’s going to happen!”
source: people.com
