Even so, he didn't come out to his family until first to his sister, then his father - a gospel singer - who asked if the devil was tempting him. He reassured him that wasn't the case, and his dad is now one of his biggest supporters. On Twitter, Nas spread his news with typical insouciance. Negative replies were swiftly despatched. But if somebody is like, 'You're pushing this and this is destroying black men as a whole and emasculation,' actually, this is somebody who actually believes something versus just an insult.
Because I've had a lot of views that I've changed within the last three years, you know? Nas's skill at directing online conversations is hard-baked into his success.
He spent his teenage years running a fan account for rap star Nicki Minaj. In fact, he was a "barb" - a die-hard stan who would, almost literally, start a war to defend her. He made thousands of posts that elevated her work and denigrated others. He was even suspended from Twitter for "tweet-decking" - creating multiple fake accounts in order to help a meme go viral.
Crucially, the experience taught him how to use the internet to his own advantage. In fact, that's exactly how he came to make Old Town Road - after spotting an emerging trend for cowboy memes that had their roots in black culture.
But rather than promote it in the usual way, Nas found a thread about earworms on Reddit and posted a comment asking: "What's this song called I'm going to take my horse to the old town road? People quickly fell for the song's quirky blend of banjos and trap beats, and it jumped across to TikTok, where thousands of people filmed themselves lip-syncing in cowboy boots and ten-gallon hats. The song gained even more notoriety when Billboard banned it from their country charts , saying it failed to "embrace enough elements of today's country music", without specifying what those elements were.
The decision attracted criticism for the conservatism of the country establishment, as well as accusations of racism - but it also turned more people on to the song's irresistible charms. And as the song caught fire, Nas didn't rest - extending its life with countless remixes featuring the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus, BTS and Diplo, while constantly churning out Twitter memes and alternate videos. He understands that in a digital world, music isn't static, but meant to facilitate an ongoing conversation.
In other words, his understanding of pop culture is so ingrained, he can play it like an instrument. Nine months in the making, the song dropped in March with a high-concept video that saw Nas descend to hell on a stripper pole and lapdance for the devil - a metaphor for the struggle to accept his sexuality, which ends with him killing Satan and claiming his horns.
Simultaneously, the year-old released a limited edition range of sneakers, dubbed Satan Shoes, which contained a drop of human blood in the sole. Predictably, and deliberately, the conservative right were outraged - but Nas was ready for them And shortly after Fox News dedicated a segment to the rapper's "outrageous" video, claiming it was an insult to Christianity, he reposted the clip in celebration.
But the song represented more than the star's ability to generate media coverage. Written about a boy he fell in love with during quarantine, its sensual lyrics are about self-acceptance and loving an aspect of yourself that the world had taught you was wrong. DMT is extremely powerful, even though it naturally occurs in several plant species. Today, its synthetic from is used for its powerful hallucinogenic effects.
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Once, they were injected with a small amount of LSD 75 micrograms ; the other time they received a saline placebo. After an hour, to let the effects settle in, they got into an fMRI brain scanner, which captured images of what went on in their brains.
When they looked at the regions of the brain involved in introspection, or thinking about oneself, and sensory areas that perceive the outside world, they found that these networks were communicating more intensely than usual. In another neuroimaging study published earlier this week in the journal PNAS— conducted by many of the same authors, including Tagliazucchi—the researchers found that LSD changes visual information in the brain.
While people are on acid, they start to see activity going on in the brain, which is normally suppressed from perception, Tagliazucchi explains. The ability to see this internal activity is likely responsible for hallucinations and visual distortions on LSD, he says. Tagliazucchi acknowledges that more research is needed—not just to provide biological evidence for the reported experiences of people on acid, but to explore a potential therapeutic approach for people with anxiety or depression.
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