{"id":633426,"date":"2026-10-01T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633426\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:26:10","slug":"lil-nas-x-returns-with-new-song-worlds-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/633426\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X Returns With New Song \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/lil-nas-x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Nas X<\/a> is back with his first new song of the year. \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/lilnasx.lnk.to\/worldsgreatest\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/lilnasx.lnk.to\/worldsgreatest&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/lilnasx.lnk.to\/worldsgreatest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World\u2019s Greatest<\/a>\u201d follows the 2025 EP Days Before Dreamboy, and marks the latest step in a return to music following his 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lil-nas-x-arrested-and-hospitalized-following-alleged-altercation-with-police-officers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrest and hospitalization<\/a> after allegedly charging after police officers in Los Angeles. \u201c\u2018Walk by faith, not by sight\u2019 was my mom\u2019s favorite phrase to say,\u201d he wrote yesterday, in the caption of an <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dd6tQx1S717\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dd6tQx1S717\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dd6tQx1S717\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram post<\/a> announcing \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest.\u201d \u201cAs I move through life it resonates with me more &amp; more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six-minute \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest\u201d video was directed by Phillip Youmans and shot in Lil Nas\u2019 hometown of Atlanta. It opens in a dance studio, where the \u201cOld Town Road\u201d singer is rehearsing stage choreography. His dance trainer tells him, \u201cYou keep doing the same thing. You know what the problem is; you\u2019re just not fixing it.\u201d From there, more present-day footage is intercut with dramatized scenes from Lil Nas\u2019 childhood. The video ends with a dedication to his late mother, Tamikia Hill. Watch it below.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Lil Nas <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lil-nas-x-pleads-not-guilty-to-felony-battery-charges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pled not guilty<\/a> to the three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one felony count of resisting an executive officer, and faced a five-year prison sentence. In April, a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lil-nas-x-to-have-battery-charges-dismissed-if-he-continues-treatment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled to dismiss<\/a> the felony battery charges against him if he agreed to a mandated two-year treatment program. The judge noted that the decision to offer dismissal was influenced by Lil Nas\u2019 diagnosis of bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his arrest, Lil Nas had shared a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/lil-nas-x-drops-new-song-where-do-we-go-now-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-off<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/lil-nas-x-j-christ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">singles<\/a>, including the Thomas Bangalter co-production \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/daft-punks-thomas-bangalter-co-produces-lil-nas-xs-new-song-light-again-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Light Again!<\/a>&#8221; He released his first (and so far, only) studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/lil-nas-x-montero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Montero<\/a>, in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X is back with his first new song of the year. \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest\u201d follows the 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,6440,2059],"class_list":["post-633426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-new-releases","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}