![]() ![]() Lessons with Kuk Harrell-the vocal producer who has worked with Beyoncé, Rihanna and Celine Dion-have molded Lil Nas into a powerful and malleable singer, especially on the despondent ballad “Void” (admittedly, he gets a little help from autotune). Lil Nas has also prioritized improving his voice, which was at times shaky and cautious on his latest release 7 EP. The album is buoyed by some of the most successful producers working in the pop/rap space: Take a Daytrip (Dua Lipa’s “Good In Bed”), Nick Mira (Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams”), Carter Lang (Swae Lee & Post Malone’s “Sunflower”). Instead, the artist operates near the center of pop music as we know it in 2021: big melodies encased in big hip-hop beats, slippery guitars, sentimental ballads, plenty of homages to ’80s and ’90s rock music. While Lil Nas X is often categorized as a rapper, outright rapping makes up a small minority of Montero it’s clearly not Lil Nas’ mission to match the lyrical prowess of his namesake. Read More: Historians Decode the Religious Symbolism and Queer Iconography of Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ Video Montero is far from a rap album ![]()
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