Yeah, with 'NASARATI,' that was my first project. I really worked literally three days on it, writing on the beats and putting it together. I'm not saying that I don't love the mixtape, but it was really my first, first move in rap. I tried to make sure everything sound different, so you hear no two songs and think they sound alike.

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My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.

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Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.

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Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can't no more' basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it's with you.

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I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.

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I want to build to that mogul, legendary level.

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My actual writing process? I have to just love the beat before I even write on it. I can't force myself to write to a beat that I'm not immediately loving.

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TikTok helped me change my life. TikTok brought my song to several different audiences at once.

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For one, the 'countryness' is pretty much in my blood. I'm from Georgia, down south. That voice just lives in me.

Lil Nas X

I was doing Facebook comedy videos; then I moved over to Instagram, and then I hopped on Twitter. That is where I really was a master. That was the first place where I could go viral.

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You step away from the public eye for too long, they don't care no more.

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But music was never something I saw myself doing.

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'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.

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But the one thing I'll always know is that people don't know what they want until they get it. They didn't know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.

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I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.

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I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

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Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn't make you a fan.

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I feel like Drake is doing exactly what I plan on doing, just being sick for all of, what, a decade now? And just always being able to switch it up and never stay in one box.

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I believe whenever you're trying something new, it's always going to get some kind of bad reception.

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I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a 'lil' in front of his name, and that's funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.

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I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy. The likes and retweets - that was, like, a plus.

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