{"id":1024201,"date":"2022-03-17T10:17:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T10:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/17\/lil-nas-x-jokes-that-hes-been-on-maternity-leave-upon-return-to-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T10:17:42","slug":"lil-nas-x-jokes-that-hes-been-on-maternity-leave-upon-return-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/17\/lil-nas-x-jokes-that-hes-been-on-maternity-leave-upon-return-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Nas X jokes that he&#8217;s been on &#8216;maternity leave&#8217; upon return to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lil Nas X jokes that he\u2019s been on \u2018maternity leave\u2019 upon return to Twitter following a three-month break.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old singer \u2013 whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill \u2013 has been away from his social media account for three months and the \u2018Old Town Road\u2019 hitmaker quipped he was thrilled to be back on the platform because he had \u201cmissed\u201d himself.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, he wrote: \u201cWhy are people surprised i\u2019ve been away for so long? have y\u2019all really never heard of maternity leave?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">why are people surprised i\u2019ve been away for so long? have y\u2019all really never heard of maternity leave?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MONTERO \ud83e\udd8b (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1504138260867518468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201ci\u2019m so happy i\u2019m back on the internet. i missed me so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i\u2019m so happy i\u2019m back on the internet. i missed me so much.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MONTERO \ud83e\udd8b (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1504139414032695296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Grammy Award-winning star \u2013 whose album \u201cMontero\u201d received critical acclaim upon its release towards the end of last year \u2013 also shared selfies of his \u201crandom\u201d hairstyles he has donned over the time he has been away.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">all the random hairstyles i\u2019ve had over the last 4 months <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/er1CuM9QLD\">pic.twitter.com\/er1CuM9QLD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MONTERO \ud83e\udd8b (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1504147236069904387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He captioned the post: \u201call the random hairstyles i\u2019ve had over the last 4 months\u201d, and went on to tease new music in a TikTok video.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cHey look, I know y\u2019all all full of saying seeing me in a minute, but I\u2019ve also got down different s*** lately for y\u2019all. I\u2019m gonna give y\u2019all folks new music type s*** and let y\u2019all folks sit on that. Some banging type s*** I\u2019ve got going.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1H5o4MWRDO\">pic.twitter.com\/1H5o4MWRDO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MONTERO \ud83e\udd8b (@LilNasX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LilNasX\/status\/1504245449120616451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A few hours later, Nas also returned to Instagram, posting some images of his recent antics.<\/p>\n<p>His return to social media comes after a bout of Covid-19 forced him to pull out of the Jingle Bell Ball in December 2021, with some of his last tweets seeming to make fun of the virus and some of his fellow musicians.<\/p>\n<p>In a since deleted tweet, he wrote at the time: \u201cCovid really sucks. Now that I\u2019m sure I won\u2019t die from Covid I will now begin making mildly funny jokes about having it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure whether I\u2019ve had the Omarion or Alicia Keys variant of Covid but this has not been a fun journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nas\u2019 maternity leave quipped referenced a video he shared of him giving birth to his long-awaited debut album, \u201cMontero\u201d, in September.<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The surreal video featured him being rushed into hospital as his waters broke, before he delivered his new record with the help of two doctors. <\/p>\n<p>Thereafter, he was seen lovingly caressing a copy of \u201cMontero\u201d as he sits in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n<p>The pregnancy-themed promo had been teased on Nas\u2019 social media, with the music star seen sporting a faux baby bump leading up to the album\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>Source <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Nas X jokes that he\u2019s been on \u2018maternity leave\u2019 upon return to Twitter following a three-month break. The 22-year-old singer \u2013 whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill \u2013 has been away from his social media account for three months and the \u2018Old Town Road\u2019 hitmaker quipped he was thrilled to be back on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}