Lil Nas X, DREAMBOY | Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈

In the 23rd edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight the song, “DREAMBOY” performed by Lil Nas X. 

Prepare to beam with P-R-I-D-E 🏳️‍🌈! Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 celebrates, embraces, and spotlights songs by LGBTQ musicians or allies.  Here, we provide background and insight into musician(s) and analyze + go gaga over the decadent bops served up.  When the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is fully articulated.  All styles of music are welcome while the songs can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, in the 23^rd edition of Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 (2025), we highlight “DREAMBOY” performed by Lil Nas X.

“Alright, okay, shit, let’s talk infatuations,” Lil Nas X (Montero Lamar Hill) raps in the first verse of his 2025 song, “DREAMBOY”.  He continues, honestly, “I like long black dick, and I like long conversations / I like cuddlin’ with my cats, and I like boys who have a smell to ‘em.” Hill never shies away from his sexuality or being true to self.  Those lyrics support his self-described role of “controversy king.” Lil Nas X penned “DREAMBOY” alongside producers Ariana Wong, Jahnei Clarke, and Roy Lenzo. One of five songs released simultaneously (including “HOTBOX”), Hill keeps it bold, entertaining, and of course, queer!

“I heard the shit y’all say about me when y’all in ‘em churches / Y’all stanky booty bitches take my fun and make it misery.” Oh, shit! Lil Nas X gives us playful, rhythmic rapping throughout “DREAMBOY.”  His lyrics are honest and unapologetic.  His confidence is through the roof as he infuses plenty of attitude.  At the end of the first verse, he references his controversial flop of a single, “J CHRIST”:

“Fell off for a minute, now I’m back on

I just do what I want, I don’t care what they like

Say it with me, nigga (Bitch, I’m back like J. Christ).”

The second verse is briefer and more melodic than the first. The tenor of the verse is more of the same: “Baby, I’m a boss… I’m a CEO / Baby, I’m that nigga, I’m that boy, I’m that negro.”  In the third verse, there is no back down either: “I’m on Nasarati road, made a lane for me.” The chorus marks the most memorable section of the record, where he embodies being a “DREAMBOY”: “Dream on, when the going get tough / Dream on, when it all gets rough.” Is Lil Nas X controversial? Yes, but his fearlessness as a black queer pop/rap artist is part of his charm.  He continues to ‘bring the heat’ making sickening bops.

Lil Nas X // “DREAMBOY” // Columbia // 2025

Lil Nas X, DREAMBOY: Beaming with Pride 🏳️‍🌈 No. 23 (2025) [📷: Brent Faulkner/ The Musical Hype; Columbia; Elias Souza, Mario Spencer, Mizuno K from Pexels;  All_CC0_Public_domain, CatsWithGlasses, David, ernestflowerss, Kelly, M. Harris, Marek Studzinski, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay]