Lil Nas X just wants his fans to enjoy the music before he really starts promoting it. More than two years after initially teasing “Lean on My Body” with a minute-long snippet, Lil Nas finally released the track on SoundCloud.
“I know I’m 10 years late but I’m dropping lean on my body in a couple minutes,” he wrote on X, quote-tweeting his initial video from March 2022.
The track — co-produced by Take a Daytrip and Jasper Harris — is one of three songs he’s released on SoundCloud and no other streaming services over the last few months. First, he dropped “Light Again,” which has nearly 3 million streams on the platform, and later “Right There.“
After a fan tweeted that the songs were “literally hits” and should be on all streaming services, Nas replied: “I just want yall to enjoy the music for now. We gone get to that!”
The songs are seemingly part of an upcoming mixtape, titled Nasarti 2. While posting the track, Nas shared a selfie of himself — in long hair and long, manicured nails — spreading fake blood on himself while looking in the mirror.
“Anyways, I’m back like a vertebrae/I can drop a sex tape and win a VMA,” he raps on the track. “I’m the devil in disguise, but I’m givin’ face/When I walk in the room, bitches better pray.”
In March, the rapper compiled a thread on X (formerly Twitter) of snippets he’s shared online as recently as this year and as far back as two years ago. Asking his followers to choose their two favorites, he reposted clips from the long-awaited “Down Souf Hoes,” which has been worked into his life shows but never released, and the down-tempo ballad “Angels.”
When he dropped “Light Again,” he joked on X that his label might not be happy about releasing it unofficially. “Ngl might get in trouble for releasing this song without [my] label’s permission but anyway,” Lil Nas wrote on TikTok. He added on X: “Sorry Columbia!”
