'Are you scared of it? Are you enjoying it?' 'I'm curious about how you're handling fame,' King said. 'And I wouldn't have to wait as long as other people would. 'I was dreaming that last year, around this time, I would make a huge footprint in music, and I would get up there as quick as I could,' he said. Lil Nas X said that during the visit, he 'definitely felt like some kind of hero in a way, I guess, 'cause everybody was just goin' crazy.' 'But it's, like, you're talkin' to somebody who's been sleeping on floors for the past couple of months trying to get some kind of song to move this is the least of my worries, pretty much.'

'I could see how anybody else would be upset,' the rapper said. 'I'm very impressed with you that you weren't hurt by it or upset by it,' King said. 'So I'm just counting my blessings and then, you know, I guess I take a peek at some of the other songs on the chart, on the country chart, and obviously have hip-hop influence in them.' 'I'm at a moment of my life where everything's, like, you know, going good,' said Lil Nas X. And then you get the news that they've decided it's not country enough,' King said. It's climbing up the Billboard country charts. 'I knew if I pushed this as hard as I could to keep this momentum going, I'm gonna have something.' On 'Old Town Road' being removed from Billboard's Hot Country chart: 'I'm not really caring too much' 'The day the song came out, I knew I was on to something,' he added. 'I wanted it to be, like, a sad-leaning song in the beginning - but then just kinda turn into a banger, you know?' 'I wanted to paint a picture of, like, a depressed kind of cowboy going to a better life,' he said. He added that he knew from the start that the song would have a country twist, even though he wasn't a country music fan.

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