For the 2021 Power of Young Hollywood Issue, Variety profiled three young stars making an impact in the entertainment industry.
For more, click here. Newfound fame has felled many a young superstar, and Lil Nas X, feeling overwhelmed by the massive success of his 2019 hit “Old Town Road,” decided to take a brief hiatas early last year to settle in and work on his debut album.
Then COVID hit.“I think I spent all of the pandemic making music and crying — no in-betweens,” the 22-year-old rapper-singer says now. “For the first month or so, I did not leave my house, and once I did, I was super overly critical of everything I was making.