Lil Nas X reflected on a "pretty difficult" past few years in a video shared via social media in February, six months before his arrest for allegedly assaulting a police officer. "These last few years were pretty difficult for me," he said in the video. "I'm just now arriving to this place of feeling confidence in myself and what I'm doing, and I'm trying to make sure I put intention towards my music and my vision and the creativity of it all.