Lil Nas X is again along with his first new tune of the yr. “World’s Best” follows the 2025 EP Days Earlier than Dreamboy, and marks the most recent step in a return to music following his 2025 arrest and hospitalization after allegedly charging after cops in Los Angeles. “‘Stroll by religion, not by sight’ was my mother’s favourite phrase to say,” he wrote yesterday, within the caption of an Instagram submit asserting “World’s Best.” “As I transfer by way of life it resonates with me extra & extra.”
The six-minute “World’s Best” video was directed by Phillip Youmans and shot in Lil Nas’ hometown of Atlanta. It opens in a dance studio, the place the “Outdated City Highway” singer is rehearsing stage choreography. His dance coach tells him, “You retain doing the identical factor. You realize what the issue is; you’re simply not fixing it.” From there, extra present-day footage is intercut with dramatized scenes from Lil Nas’ childhood. The video ends with a dedication to his late mom, Tamikia Hill. Watch it under.
Final yr, Lil Nas pled not responsible to the three counts of battery with damage on a police officer and one felony rely of resisting an government officer, and confronted a five-year jail sentence. In April, a choose dominated to dismiss the felony battery fees in opposition to him if he agreed to a mandated two-year therapy program. The choose famous that the choice to supply dismissal was influenced by Lil Nas’ analysis of bipolar dysfunction.
Previous to his arrest, Lil Nas had shared plenty of one-off singles, together with the Thomas Bangalter co-production “Mild Once more!” He launched his first (and thus far, solely) studio album, Montero, in 2021.
