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Billboard Magazine reports:

With the release of “Industry Baby,” Lil Nas X isn’t just doing time in “Montero State Prison” — he’s doing his part to help get others out.

Alongside the release of his new single and video, which depicts the rapper springing himself from a fictional jail, Lil Nas X announced his new collaboration with The Bail Project.

Titled the “Bail X Fund,” the new initiative sees the rapper raising money to help pay cash bail to those who can’t afford it, and aims to help The Bail Project’s goal of bringing an end to the cash bail system in the United States.

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.@LilNasX is just functioning at an entirely different level. Extraordinary. https://t.co/gzWwylOI3T

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) July 23, 2021

Lil Nas X Launched a Bail Fund Project With ‘Industry Baby’ but Sure, Stay Mad at Him for Being Naked in a Music Video https://t.co/f77gvhlKQl pic.twitter.com/45MYWVFW97

— The Root (@TheRoot) July 23, 2021