Watch: Lil Nas X Covers GQ as a Man of the Year

Out recording artist Lil Nas X covers GQ as one of the magazine's Men of the Year, joining "Spider-Man" actor Tom Holland and basketball star Giannis Antetokounmpo, NBC News reported.

The cover – and other photos of Nas X featured in the issue – use image trickery to show him posing with himself in gender-transcending styles.

Nas X gave a pair of interviews to the magazine: A text interview with out playwright Jeremy O. Harris, and a video interview in which he looks back on, and reacts to, the fashions he's sported over the last few years.

NBC News noted that in the interview with Harris, which was published online Nov. 15, Nas X gave his opinion "about how rap is evolving when it comes to LGBTQ issues and queer entertainers."

Pointing to how "change is happening," Nas X predicted that "There's going to be so many gay rappers. There's going to be more trans people in the industry and whatnot. Ten years from now, everything that I'm doing won't even seem like it was shocking."

The two also discussed how high-profile LGBTQ+ people are routinely accused of having, or being part of, an "agenda." Nas X told Harris that, to him, the "agenda" in question would be "acceptance of gay people. And they see that as a bad thing: Like, they're trying to normalize it. You know what? Yeah. That's actually what I'm trying to do."

Asked what "normalizing" being LGTBQ+ means to him, Nas X specified, "It looks like a little boy asking his parents at eight years old, can he get some nail polish or try something, and it's not even a question. It looks like two guys kissing during a performance and there not being anything crazy on Twitter about it the next day. It looks like a little boy who doesn't want to play fucking football and hang with the girls, and that just being a normal thing. Just letting people exist. Like, that's gay as fuck."

In the video interview, Nas X reviewed footage from past videos and other appearances, musing on the looks and styles he's sported in the past. One clip from an early music video, "Carry On," showed him wearing a bright yellow jacket that he also wore in the photo on the cover of his first EP, "7." "That's iconic right there," Nas X said of the jacket.

"Oh my god this outfit," Nas X said of the body-hugging white jumpsuit he wore at the 2019 VMA Awards. "I almost got burned alive."

Explaining that the ensemble was designed to illuminate with pink lights, Nas X recalled that "right before the performance, I was starting to smoke.... I was like, 'This is gonna be iconic, or this is gonna be terrible.' But luckily, I didn't catch on fire."

"Would I wear it again? No," the performer said. "Nah."

Nas X went on to discuss outfits that made him look like a gay cowboy, or resemble a "'Batman' villain," were great-looking but uncomfortable to wear or vice versa, and even retain an element of "trauma" for him now.

Check out the video interview below.