{"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>&#8220;Feels good being able to walk through the halls and not get in trouble for it,&#8221; he says in the clip. He also sits\u00a0in the principal&#8217;s office and takes selfies with fans.<\/p>\n<p>Lil Nas X&#8217;s meteoric rise in the music industry is due in large part to the success of his genre-bending single &#8220;Old Town Road,&#8221; 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, &#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; 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>&#8220;Old Town Road&#8221; eventually reappeared on Billboard&#8217;s\u00a0country music charts, and as the old adage goes, all press is good press. The song&#8217;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>&#13;<\/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>&#13;<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&#8217;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 &#8220;Feels good being able to walk through the halls and not get [&hellip;]<\/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}]}}