As Lil Nas X readies the Friday release of his highly anticipated and equally controversial Montero album, he sat down with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to discuss how music both saved his life and caused him some of the worst anxiety he's ever experienced. The 22-year-old divulged that the death of his rap peers, mixed with the sudden success of "Old Town Road," made him fear for his life. "The entire time I was making music, I thought soon I was going to die for some reason," he told Lowe. "I was like, 'Oh my God, everything's building up.' And then especially when "Old Town Road" blew up, I was like, 'Oh, I'm definitely dying soon.' All of these artists that were coming into, or starting to pop into the music industry, were passing away. I was like, 'What the f**k is happening?'" The "Industry Baby" rapper said that when ignoring the noise wasn't enough, faith got him through the anxiety. "That's when I found belief in the universe, for sure," he recalls. "And I was like, 'Oh my...
