Lil Nas X Reveals Why He Turned Down Working With Taylor Swift

Lil Nas X virtually collaborated with Taylor Swift, however the venture fell aside earlier than coming to fruition, in keeping with the rapper.

The “Previous City Highway” hitmaker advised E! Information in an interview printed on Friday, March 28, that he and Swift, 35, have been set to make music collectively at one level.

“We have been engaged on one thing,” Lil Nas, 25, shared. “She supplied to let me strive a verse on one thing, however I couldn’t catch a vibe for it, so it didn’t occur.”

Lil Nas isn’t ruling out working with the “All Too Effectively” singer someday sooner or later, nonetheless. He added: “When it occurs… World. World. Tay-tay and Nassy.”

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Whereas the vibe wasn’t proper for his or her collab, Lil Nas nonetheless had nothing reward for Swift within the interview.

“I’m happy with my lady,” he stated. “I like the album. She’s been doing her factor. She’s on the very tippety prime. I’m grateful that she even thought of me.”

Swift’s profession has gone from energy to energy after she first burst onto the music scene as a young person, releasing her self-titled album in 2006.

Through the years, she’s gained 14 Grammy awards and scored a formidable 52 nominations.

Along with her 4 Album of the Yr trophies, she additionally obtained accolades for Finest Nation Album for Fearless and Finest Nation Tune and Finest Feminine Nation Vocal Efficiency for “White Horse” in 2010, Finest Nation Tune and Finest Nation Solo Efficiency for “Imply” in 2012, Finest Tune Written for Visible Media for “Secure & Sound” from The Starvation Video games in 2013, Finest Music Video for “Unhealthy Blood” and Finest Pop Vocal Album for 1989 in 2016, Finest Music Video for All Too Effectively: The Brief Movie in 2023 and Finest Pop Vocal Album for Midnights in 2024.

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Swift’s current Eras Tour, which wrapped up in Vancouver in December, 2024 after the singer spent virtually two years touring the globe, was a record-breaking success.

It turned the highest-grossing tour of all time, grossing over $2 billion in ticket gross sales. The New York Occasions reported in December 2024 that that is “double the gross ticket gross sales of every other live performance tour in historical past.” (This determine excludes merchandise offered in the course of the reveals.)

“I knew this tour was more durable than something I’d ever executed earlier than by an extended shot,” Swift advised Time Journal in December 2023. “I lastly, for the very first time, bodily ready accurately.”