My dad's name is Robert Stafford. His music name is R. L. Stafford; he makes gospel music.
I was pretty familiar with TikTok: I always thought its videos would be ironically hilarious. When I became a trending topic on there, it was a crazy moment for me. A lot of people will try to downplay it, but I saw it as something bigger.
Take my horse to the old town road and ride till I can't no more' basically means just running away, and everything is just gone. The horse is metaphorical for not having anything or just the little things that you do have, and it's with you.
I feel like Drake is doing exactly what I plan on doing, just being sick for all of, what, a decade now? And just always being able to switch it up and never stay in one box.
I believe whenever you're trying something new, it's always going to get some kind of bad reception.
I feel like I'm opening the doors for more people. That they feel more comfortable being out. Especially in the hip-hop community.
'Old Town Road' came after a period of feeling like I was out of options. I was living with my sister. She was pretty much fed up with me being there.
I had it just Lil Nas at first because every rapper has a 'lil' in front of his name, and that's funny to me. But then I got stuck with it because I already built a fan base at that point.
Growing up, I always liked so many different sounds from so many different genres - the different aspects they could bring.