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Lil Nas X Fires Off Warning Shot on Bouncy ‘Big Dummy’ Single: ‘Y’all Finna Get This Heat All 2025’

The song comes on the heels of Sunday's (March 9) release of the title track from the rapper's upcoming album, "Dreamboy."

Lil Nas X attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 2, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.

Lil Nas X attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 2, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Lil Nas X took some time off, but clearly it was no vacation. The rapper has dropped back-to-back new singles this week and on his latest he’s warning that no games will be played this year. “B–ch, I’m in my prime like a paintbrush/ Big s–t poppin’, walkin’ ’round in a mink vest/ Whoop-whoop, talkin’ ain’t tryna hear the stank breath/ B–ch, shut the f–k up unless she’s got a big chef for me,” he raps over a spare, bass-heavy beat.

In the equally bare-bones video, Lil Nas delivers the song’s fair warning to watch yourself in a white void, rocking a pink shirt and black jeans with pink crosses and wings across the front as three male dancers in pink matchin bounce around behind him. When the sing-songy chorus comes around, LNX is back on his fun vibe.


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“In the club, cuttin’ up/ Gettin’ drunk while I’m pickin’ out my pick-me/ All my opps and my simps gettin’ low/ ‘Cause they want but they know they can’t get me,” he sings in a high voice before getting back to business with some NSFW bars about “bangin’ on his top like bongos.”

A third preview of Lil Nas’ upcoming album, “Hotbox,” is due out on Friday (March 14), after the rapper teased the song’s video last month.

This week opened with the surprise drop of the “Dreamboy” single, on which Lil Nas raps “I was scared then, ain’t scared now/ Weren’t ready then, but I’m ready now,” over some chunky piano. The Dreamboy album — the follow-up to 2021’s Montero — does not yet have an official release date.

Watch the “Big Dummy” video below.

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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Kanye West at the grand opening of 424's Melrose Place store held at 424 on February 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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Kanye West at the grand opening of 424's Melrose Place store held at 424 on February 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

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Ye Says Latest Apology For Hateful Antisemitic Remarks ‘Isn’t About Reviving My Commerciality’ Ahead of Album Release

Following Monday's (Jan. 26) WSJ ad tying his antisemitic rants to the effects of brain damage suffered in a 2002 car crash, Ye still won't explain the origin of his hate speech.

Ye (formerly Kanye West) apologized once again this week for his repeated amplifying of hateful antisemitic remarks, this time taking about a full-page ad in Monday’s (Jan. 26) edition of The Wall Street Journal to offer a mea culpa. The paid advertorial was his reported attempt to make amends to the Jewish community for his repeated embrace of Nazi symbolism and deployment of hate speech against Jews.

West explained in the pages of the Murdoch family-owned paper that the well-documented 2002 car crash that became the inspiration for his breakthrough 2004 single “Through the Wire” resulted in brain damage to the right frontal lobe of his brain that led to mental health issues and an eventual diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The once high-flying rapper and producer then claimed that he spiraled into a four-month manic episode in early 2025 that included “psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life.”

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