{"id":24638,"date":"2019-09-30T03:25:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/watch-lil-nas-x-surprise-his-old-high-school-in-atlanta\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:25:59","slug":"watch-lil-nas-x-surprise-his-old-high-school-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/watch-lil-nas-x-surprise-his-old-high-school-in-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lil Nas X Surprise His Old High School in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a teaser for his upcoming appearance on <em>CBS This Morning<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/lil-nas-x\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Nas X<\/a>\u00a0returns to his hometown high school in Atlanta, just a few years after he was one of the\u00a0students roaming those same halls with lofty aspirations of making it in music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>“Feels good being able to walk through the halls and not get in trouble for it,” he says in the clip. He also sits\u00a0in the principal’s office and takes selfies with fans.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Nas X’s meteoric rise in the music industry is due in large part to the success of his genre-bending single “Old Town Road,” which now stands as the longest-running No.\u00a01 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2019\/07\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-longest-running-number-one-billboard-hot-100-history\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">song<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Billboard Hot 100 history. Aside from being an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earworm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">earworm<\/a> of a track with a catchy, melodic hook that just gets stuck in your head, “Old Town Road” entered the public consciousness with a bit of unintentional controversy, after the song was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2019\/03\/lil-nas-x-speaks-on-old-town-road-removal-from-country-chart\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed<\/a> from the Billboard\u00a0country music charts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>“Old Town Road” eventually reappeared on Billboard’s\u00a0country music charts, and as the old adage goes, all press is good press. The song’s controversial genre designation only allowed for new sets of ears to pay attention to the track that would soon sweep\u00a0the nation.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\"><span class=\"advertisement_text featured\">POST CONTINUES BELOW<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Less than a year has passed since\u00a0Lil Nas X became a household name, and now he just wants a little time to himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-embed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p> <\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s been a wild last 7 months and im ready to take a little time off. sorry to everyone attending twitchcon or the sandbox music festival, i will not be there. i love u guys and will make it up to you some way. \ud83d\ude0e\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p> <br \/>\n\u2014 nope (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1177679699369050112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Check out\u00a0Lil Nas X’s interview with Gayle King on <em>CBS This Morning<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2019\/09\/lil-nas-x-surprises-old-high-school-atlanta\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a teaser for his upcoming appearance on CBS This Morning, Lil Nas X\u00a0returns to his hometown high school in Atlanta, just a few years after he was one of the\u00a0students roaming those same halls with lofty aspirations of making it in music.\u00a0 “Feels good being able to walk through the halls and not get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[623,95,973,5,1494,4259,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlanta","category-dfp-music","category-dfp-music-country","category-featured","category-high-school","category-lil-nas-x","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24640,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions\/24640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}