Lil Nas X reveals he tried psychedelic mushrooms for the first time to help him 'open up a lot' on his debut album 'Montero'

• Lil Nas X revealed he tried psychedelic mushrooms for the first time while working on his debut album "Montero."
• The singer told the Wall Street Journal the trip helped him to "push past lots of lingering feelings of self-consciousness."

Lil Nas X revealed he tried psychedelic mushrooms for the first time while working on his debut album "Montero."

"I was able to open up a lot," he told Wall Street Journal reporter Myles Tanzer. "I was able to write actual stories about my life and put it into my music. I actually did that for the first time."

The "Old Town Road" singer spent much of the pandemic in California Airbnb's alongside Denzel Baptiste and David Biral, also known as Take a Daytrip, working on "Montero."

In a "breakthrough moment," the 22-year-old opted to try magic mushrooms, according to the Wall Street Journal.

But instead of powering through to work on music, Baptiste and Biral - both sober - sat beside Lil Nas as he hung around the pool and reflected on life.

His experience with drugs helped him to "push past lots of lingering feelings of self-consciousness," according to the Wall Street Journal.

Lil Nas did not shy away from personal experience on his first album with many tracks dealing with themes such as heartbreak, isolation, and even thoughts of suicide. The track "Dead Right Now" even refers to his gospel-singer father who did not have faith his son would make it in the music industry.