Lil Nas X has covered GQ's 26th annual Men of the Year issue. In the cover story, Nas X discussed DaBaby's homophobic Rolling Loud comments, saying, “I’m not going to lie, I feel bad for DaBaby. I hope he grows from it. I hope he’s able to. But I don’t know.”
He continued, “The whole landscape is very hypermasculine. It’s so great and so amazing that all these female rappers are breaking through. And, in a way, female rappers are the biggest rappers right now.”
He also discussed Drake and Nicki Minaj turning down the chance to work with him on his debut album, saying, “I don’t usually ask for features like that. But for every feature I did ask for on this album, like, every single one of them worked…besides Drake and Nicki Minaj.”He added, “I didn’t ask them directly. I wanted Nicki on “Industry Baby,” and I wanted Drake on “Dolla Sign Slime,” with Megan Thee Stallion. Yeah, but you know, I feel like things always work out. Jack Harlow ended up being, like, the best option. I’m not sure how comfortable Nicki would have felt with that video or whatnot.”