Lil Nas X had an awkward moment live on BBC Breakfast as he accidentally blocked the camera while walking across the set.
The Old Town Road rapper blocked hosts Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty as he got up from the sofa after finishing his interview.
“Nas, can we just say, you just walked right across our camera shot,” Stayt told the rapper, adding: “You know how to steal the show.”
“The way this work is you have to sit there so you don’t go in front of the cameras,” he explained after Lil Nas admitted: “I was leaving.”
“Next time that won’t happen,” he laughed.
During the interview the rapper, real name Montero Lamar Hill, revealed that he has experienced a social media backlash after telling fans that he is gay.
The 20-year-old came out in a series of tweets posted last week, which coincided with the end of Pride month in the United States.
He asked fans to “listen closely” to the lyrics of his track C7osure (You Like), which alludes to his need to “be free,” and also shared the artwork from his EP which features a skyscraper lit up in rainbow colours in an apparent nod to the LGBTQ flag.
The star said he hoped he was “opening doors for more people.”
“How big of a deal is [coming out]?” he continued. “Is it something that I was considering never doing ever, like taking to the grave or something?
“But I was like, I don’t want to live my entire life - especially how I got to where I’m at, not doing what I want to do.”
He said he was “not angry” with social media trolls “because [he] understand[s] how they want that reaction” and said that he is “just going to joke back with them.”
He shared his hopes that fans would “feel comfortable” with his sexuality but said that homosexuality is “not really accepted in either the country [or] hip-hop communities.”
He recently performed the track with the country star during Billy Ray’s daughter Miley’s set at Glastonbury Festival.
