I decided to be the new President of League of Legends.
Wow!
LIL NAS X @WORLDS22
LOS ANGELES
Yeah, I'm gonna sing for Riot Games.
It's a thing, you know.
I become the President
and I kind of take over the company.
[Lil Nas X, Former President, League of Legends] And I kind of kill it and do an amazing job.
I've never been to Riot before.
It's a riot. Am I right?
Wow. High five!
Hopefully they like me.
They have no choice. I'll be the President.
I like acting a little bit, you know? I like pretending to be something that I'm not.
It's such a popular thing out here.
Wow. Great lighting.
I guess part of me just wanted to try something new.
I want to make sure I keep this angle though, right?
I decided to be the new President of League of Legends!
[LIL NAS X - President, League of Legends] You can call me Lil Nas X-ecutive.
Bottom line, I'm here to change the industry, baby.
Hell yeah! That's so good. Alright, let's move on. That was really good.
Cool.
[Tony Yacenda - Video Director, Lil Nas X + Riot Take-over campaign] I said Nudyr, like Udyr.
I said Nudyr, like Udyr.
Nudyr, Udyr... Budyyyr.
No, we're deleting Yuumi!
I've made my decision.
Delete the f... Delete the freaking cat!
[RIOT IS NOT DELETING THE FREAKING CAT]
"Gank" sounds like a really... bad word to say.
"Gank".
As President of League, I want to make the greatest Worlds Anthem of all time.
Sometimes in life you gotta give up.
Stop going, stop, and then go again, you know?
Sometimes you gotta give things a breather.
Like that song that I took months on and it's finally finished.
All right guys, here we go.
Let's clear frame and roll camera please.
Rolling.
This is actually the longest I've ever worked on a song.
I had the verses from the beginning,
but the hook took months and months and months.
Like, we started in February and it's September now.
I finished it last night.
Really?
Yeah, I didn't get the hook until yesterday.
Crazy timing.
He's so right about that.
I think more people need to say that, you know?
So this is a random bullpen, yeah...
Oh, I also wanna show you around Marketing, but only if you want it.
You don't have to do... you don't have to do press. It's, you know, that's up to you.
Maybe, listen. I give a big gut wrench and I fall to my knees and I cry,
and then I'd win my Oscar next year.
- All right. We'll do... that the next take, okay? - Okay.
It's a thick phone.
Thank, guys. Good work.
Let's lock it up outside, please guys. Roll camera.
So you're telling me you can build tank items and still solo their ADC?
This is flawless.
Can you come up with something other than "This is flawless", too?
"This is such a slay!"
- Flawless? Okay... Okay... - Flawless. Slaying a bit.
Are you getting this?
I love that so much!
...we all know you can carry with base K'Sante, but...
Look, we all know you can... carry with base K'Sante. Nas, come on!
That's me looking at this again. Pointing some more.
Now I'm pointing a little with my feet.
And now without further ado, I give you the K'Sante Prestige skin!
Don't clap.
Without further ado...
I'm K'Sante's cousin, Montero.
- We got a grand reveal for you. - Yeah.
Yeah, let's see it!
Awesome!
Wow!
That's sick. They stole my outfit.
Prestige is basically the most elevated collectible item that a player in League of Legends can get.
So what this outfit basically is,
it's like imagining K'Sante
[Thomas Randby - Lead Concept Artist] in a really high fashion, like red carpet outfit.
That's drawing a lot of inspiration from the base Empyrean skin.
We gotta make this in real life.
- This is a mix of you and him. - It's beautiful.
[Hodo Musa - Stylist] Gotta get those butterflies in there, right, Hodo?
One other thing too is, you know, we got the butterflies here,
[Brian Vinton - Director, Art Direction] but we also built some of that shape line lapels too on the jacket.
So yeah, you got this cool butterfly lapel and some layering in there too.
You know, your story just resonates with people, you know?
It's like, "Hey, you can, you got this."
Work hard and give it all you got, you know?
Showcasing you here and
there's a lot for players to latch onto and be inspired by.
We figured it was a great moment.
It's a perfect moment.
Good afternoon. I need to focus my mind and soul
on bigger and doper things. Such as creating the
greatest Worlds Opening Ceremony we've ever done.
As you're coming off like this, be like, "See you November 5th!"
- In this camera? I'll do that. - Yeah.
See you November 5th!
Guys, how about a big round of applause for our friend, Lil Nas X!
All finished? Thank you guys! Thank you guys!
SAN FRANCISCO
[WORLDS 2022 MEDIA NIGHT] Is it happening in the middle of a pool game?
What's up?
[Jackson Wang - Singer and Performer] Nice to meet you.
You excited, man?
Very excited.
It's gonna be great!
Alright guys, act like we are like friends and stuff.
[Faker, T1] - I hear you're the best of all time. - Yes.
Thank you.
Joining Jackson now on stage for couple of photographs, our former President of the League: Lil Nas X!
Is this the actual trophy?
Yeah!
Ah, first, this has been a lot of fun.
I feel like it's always fun when I work with people that are in gaming
because I'm way more involved and we got to do a lot more things together.
I don't know. It feels like more of a community
rather than me just coming again and doing this thing and like, "Okay, see you guys."
And how are you gonna translate that energy to your performance on Saturday?
I'm going to try to put a lot of me in that performance.
Well, I am going to put a lot of me in it and it's gonna be a lot of fun.
It's gonna be exciting.
It's gonna be a lot of movement.
It's going to be a really sick show.
This is the first time that we're actually performing Star Walkin' with choreography.
[Sean Bankhead - Choreographer] On tour, he kind of just goes out and performs it by himself.
So this is the first time that we've actually had staging
and dancers and a lot of screen content that's interactive
with the performance.
On end of 1, can we- Ah, oh, there's your rubble.
Anytime I work with Nas, it is the most challenging
thing I've ever done in my entire life.
Just because he's a big nut.
What's you guys' favorite kind of fart?
What's your tea this morning?
Baby, you know, I'm a little brat. Brats need space.
The goal for today is basically just blocking.
We're trying to get all of our marks in the proper spacing,
so that all the screen content lines up.
He has a lift gag that he's doing,
so we're testing out the lift.
So, there's absolute zero chance that this would ever fall, right?
Correct.
And also...
You didn't say anything.
He'll tell you.
He's the guy.
I'm the guy.
I'm terrified.
I could piss in my pants.
3, 2...
We're going that way, but where do you want to...?
[Crowd cheering]
SIX!
FIVE!
FOUR!
THREE!
TWO!
ONE!
[Crowd cheering]
You know what gets me in the zone? I imagine everybody else is like a robot.
That I'm just having a little fun in a VR world.
Yeah, and it's like, makes everything easier.
♪ Don't ever say it's over if I'm breathing ♪
♪ Racing to the moonlight and I'm speeding I'm headed to the stars, ♪
♪ ready to go far I'm star walkin' ♪
♪ Don't ever say it's over if I'm breathing ♪
♪ Racing to the moonlight and I'm speeding I'm headed to the stars, ♪
♪ ready to go far I'm star walkin' ♪
Killed it!
Love your dress.
Thank you!
Thank you, Mr. President.
I did my best, man.
You f***** killed it! Thank you guys so much!
[Quickshot - Shoutcaster] I've been commenting for 10 years. I've seen every opening ceremony.
That was the best one that we've ever done.
I so badly want to get in that photo.
How does it feel to know that millions of people
just watched you do that?
How does it feel?
I think that's sick.
I think that's a crazy number of people.
If I sat here and thought about it right now,
you know, maybe... three years ago, I'm sleeping on the couch and I'm like,
"This place is probably the last place on Earth I probably could be."
I feel like there's a better odd of me being the
President of the United States right now, then being here right now, you know?
Yeah.