Earlier this week, Time’s 100 Most Influential People list was announced and of course, the iconic 22-year-old made the cut.
In a profile for the Panini singer, Cudi praised LNX for being “unafraid” to be himself in the industry. “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,” he said. “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’s he’s unafraid to make people uncomfortable is so rock’n’roll.