Lil Nas X posed for a photo shoot in PEOPLE magazine with a gut full of his debut album, Montero.
LNX strapped on a prosthetic belly to celebrate the impending delivery of his “baby” on Sept. 17.
He tells PEOPLE exclusively that he decided to do the shoot after YouTuber James Charles pretended to be pregnant after listening to Megan Thee Stallion’s verse on his new song “Dolla Sign Slime” for the first time.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is amazing,’ so I immediately called my stylist,” LNX claims.
“She was like, ‘Wow, this all comes together. Your album. Your baby.’ I was like, ‘Yeah, this is my baby, huh?’ As a joke, she was like, ‘Yeah, you should do a pregnancy shoot.’
“I was like, ‘You know what? That’s actually brilliant.’ So now we have this entire thing coming out, and it’s going to be amazing.”
Earlier this week, LNX trolled Drake by sharing an album cover of pregnant men emojis. Drake’s Certified Lover Boy album, featuring pregnant female emojis on the cover, drops Friday.
“I was like, ‘There’s no way the universe is lining up this perfect for this to happen,” LNX laughed.