Watch Lil Nas X Slip Into His “Royal, Powerful, and Slutty” Met Gala Look

[crowd cheers]

[Woman] Oh!

Oh, sh-

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We re in New York and we re getting ready

for the Met Gala.

I feel super excited.

I think we re gonna win tonight.

That s how I feel.

From the very beginning,

I knew I wanted to do some armor stuff,

even before we knew anything about anything,

about the theme.

But, you know, my stylist and Versace worked together

on this the most, you know.

Yeah, he killed it.

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Gold is like the color on the periodic table for 79, right?

7 and 9 are my numbers, right?

So this is just perfect for me.

I mean, Versace is, I mean, of course,

one of the most iconic...

Grammy s, when we did the pink cowboy... [sighs]

That was out of here.

I feel like we re gonna do a lot of stuff in my lifetime,

me and Versace.

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Oh my God.

[Woman] Oh my God! Guys.

Can I like?

[team laughs]

[Woman] You re protecting it, right?

Yeah, in person.

[Woman] In person.

Yeah, it looks really sick.

Really amazing job, you guys.

[team claps]

I m excited.

I m very excited.

[team woos]

[crowd claps]

[Woman] Oh my God.

Yes!

[Man] How does it feel?

Feels how it looks.

Amazing.

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Okay, so first we re gonna get on the carpet.

We re gonna get out of that bus, car, van, whatever.

And then I m gonna stand there,

and they re gonna throw the robe over me.

Right?

And then we re gonna take pictures with the robe.

Then boom, robe off.

Armor.

And then after the armor, we re gonna go up the stairs.

Pose, pose, sexy pictures.

And then, boom, they re gonna take the armor off.

And then whoops.

You re gonna have me in my body suit,

looking all hot, sexy, little slutty.

You know?

[finger snaps]

Mmm, mmhmm.

Mmm, mmhmm.

Mmmm, mmm.

Okay, let s practice.

[Woman] Boom, boom.

Then it s you.

[Woman] Make it swift. Do it swift.

Yup, yup.

Yup.

[Man] There we go.

[Woman] Yeah?

It s powerful.

[Man] You re glowing.

It s powerful.

In this lighting, this light right here.

Mmm, Mmm, Mmm.

You guys ready?

You guys ready?

[Woman] Yeah. It s going to be a Met

to remember.

It goes royalty.

Royalty, right?

And it goes from like armor and power, right?

And then it goes a little slutty, you know?

Oh my God.

[woman laughs] You guys.

[Woman] Where did this come from?

The holy Trinity.

I want to talk about the VMA.

You guys wanna hear about that?

Well, I won this little award.

Y all won video of the year, you guys.

I worked really hard, you know.

I wrote that video out in my notes app and-

[finger snaps] Boom, look at how-

Look at where we are, you know?

This one is for the champions.

Like I ain t lost this [unintelligible]

It s funny how they say it was the end.

Then I went and did it again.

I told them long ago on the road,

I got what they waiting for.

I don t run from nothing, dog.

Get your soldiers.

Tell them that their break is over.

Break was over.

Okay, bye guys.

Wait, we got to see my nails.

Versace.

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We re going to the Met Gala.

I m kind of sporting a look right now

if you guys see it s like the Tim s with the robe.

Glasses.

It s kind of giving.

So we re in the elevator right now with a bunch of friends.

You guys ever seen that movie with all the people who were

stuck inside of the elevator, the scary lady?

No? You guys never seen that?

The devil?

Oh my God.

[Woman] Oh my god.

[crowd chatters]

[crowd cheers]

[razor buzzes]

You guys are fueling and stuff?

♪ I ll be honest ♪

♪ We all artists ♪

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[Woman] Does anyone have extra masks?

Great job everybody.

Great job.

[team cheers]

Good job, you guys.

[claps] Okay, so we are getting there.

[team chatting]

[Woman] We re here at the Met Gala!

[Man] We re here!

[team cheers]

We re so happy to be here.

Give it up for Nas s first Met,

and the entire team that brought this entire thing together

in the van.

In Jesus name we pray, kill it.

Amen.

[Team] Amen!

[team cheers]

[crowd cheers]

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