Nothing where I felt like I could open up to him or anything. “I feel like my relationship with my dad is closer now, but growing up, it just wasn’t there as much. Though his dad has been a vocal advocate for his son and for queer people, calling out Boosie and DaBaby for their homophobic comments, it wasn’t always like that growing up. Montero said that his relationship with his father, Robert Stafford, hasn’t always been smooth. The tweet has since been deleted after violating Twitter’s code of conduct, with a notice explaining: “This tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter rules.” An army of queer activists and allies rose to his defense - including his own dad. Lil Nas X, born Montero Lamar Hill, said he has firsthand experience of homophobia in the hip-hop music industry - most recently with rapper Boosie Badazz, who unleashed a homophobic Twitter rant against him in October, encouraging him to “commit suicide.”īoosie wrote on Twitter, “STOP TROLLING ME F-– LOL U A WHOLE B- PLAYING WITH A GANGSTA SMH U CAN KEEP SUCKING D- N GETTIN F-– N YOUR A– N PEACE N #uhateyourself I WOULD TOO IF I WAS YOU LOL NASx IF YOU #commitsuicide YOU WOULD DO THIS WORLD A HUGE FAVOR NOBODY WANTS YOU HERE.”
