Lil Nas X made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon wearing a skirt and had a hilarious response to the haters questioning his wardrobe choice. 

The 22-year-old rapper, born Montero Lamar Hill, explained the reason behind going pants-less, citing a wardrobe malfunction during his Saturday Night Live debut performance.

"I'm pretty much going down the pole, doing my little sexy drop down and boom, I feel air," he told host Jimmy Fallon on Monday. "I'm like 'Okay, there's definitely a breeze going on.' And I also felt some popping still happening while I was down there."

"You know what the worst part is? At the end of the performance the dancers are supposed to touch me and tug on me and they were tugging on the pants. I was like, 'Please God, no,'" he continued, noting that he couldn't let his dancers know what was going on because he would ruin the live performance. 

"It was perfect timing. If they would've ripped any other time during the performance, everything, over," Lil Nas X said. "If you listen closely you probably can hear the rip."

Fallon also asked the rapper about his upcoming eponymous album Montero and what listeners can expect.

"My entire life has led up to this moment of this album. It's honest. It's 100% me," the “Old Town Road” singer shared. "I'm exploring my sexuality, myself. It's like a coming-of-age story…my heartbreaks, I’ve had a lot of those in the last couple years. It's everything, it’s something everybody can vibe along to."

In 2019, on the last day of Pride Month, Lil Nas X publicly alluded to his sexuality, eventually revealing that he is gay.

A few months later, during an episode of HBO’s The Shop: Uninterrupted, the Georgia native told Kevin Hart why he chose to come out about his sexuality when he did, while at the No.1 Billboard 100 spot.   

“If for me, the ‘cool dude with the song on top of everything,’ to say this at any other time, I’m doing this for attention in my eyes,” the 22-year-old said. “But if you’re doing this while you’re at the top, you know it’s for real. It’s showing it doesn’t really matter, I guess.”

He also mentioned that being gay is something he was taught to condemn during his upbringing. 

“It’s not like I was being forced. It’s just like knowing growing up, I’m growing up to hate this s**t. I’m not supposed –” he said before Hart interrupted him.

“Hate what? Why? Why are you growing up to hate?” Hart asked.

“Homosexuality, gay people,” Lil Nas X responded. “Come on now, if you’re really from the hood you know.”

While accepting the Native Sons Award, an accolade that acknowledges queer, Black pioneers, Lil Nas X recalled the experience of coming out, saying it was one of the “scariest moments” of his life.

"When I came out two years ago, it was one of the scariest moments of my life," the rapper said in his award acceptance speech, the Today Show
reported. "I was afraid because I knew the world was watching, and all I ever saw for boys like me was judgment and ridicule, but it was because the world was watching that I knew I had to stand in my truth. 

"Far too many of our youth are struggling to find acceptance," he continued. "We are taught to hate ourselves for who we are and we are punished for living openly and proudly. I made the decision to be myself and open doors for the rest of my life.”

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