Lil Nas X Sends Heartfelt Message To Queer Fans In Saudi Arabia

With a rising tide of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment making its way around the globe, Lil Nas X wants his fans to know that he is there to support them.

As ‘Billboard’ reports, on Wednesday night (April 12), the ‘Old Town Road’ rapper retweeted a report from a fan account that said his song ‘Sun Goes Down’ off of ‘Montero’ had reached No. 1 on the iTunes charts in Saudi Arabia.

In his tweet, the rapper sent a message specifically to his LGBTQ+ fans in Saudi Arabia, hoping that the song’s message resonated with them. “to my gays [sic] fans from saudi arabia reading this, i hope this song is getting you through whatever you’re going through,” he wrote. “and i hope someday soon the laws against us change and you can be free in your own home.”

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The song traces Lil Nas’ personal journey from experiencing suicidal thoughts at a young age to self-acceptance of his queerness later on in life, with many seeing it as a hopeful anthem to coming out. “I know that you want to cry... but there’s much more to life than dying,” he sings on the final post-chorus. “Over your past mistakes... and people who threw dirt on your name.”

The rapper’s tweet was specifically referring to the Middle Eastern country’s criminalization of queerness. According to Human Dignity Trust, a U.K.-based legal advocacy group working to challenge same-sex discrimination laws around the globe, Saudi Arabia criminalizes same-sex sexual activity as well as public gender expression for trans people, with “a maximum penalty of death.

Lil Nas’ touching message comes a few weeks after the rapper received criticism online for a tweet asking “where do the gays be in Africa” shortly after Uganda passed a historically broad anti-LGBTQ+ law.

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