Some things are fundamentally true about the world: the sky is blue, the grass is green, and Lil Nas is an expert troll. Now the ‘Call Me By Your Name’ singer is drawing the ire of the Twitch streamer Kai Cénat on the rapper’s latest series of messages.
In a flow On Thursday, Cenat went on a screaming rant about the rapper following the artist’s latest round of promotions for his new single. “No, damn it!” Yo, Lil Nas “I hate this na, bro. Now it occurs to me, brother… God is going to deal with you right. I don’t even want to talk about that yet, bro. But listen, God is going to take care of you, brother.
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When a friend on the stream asked Cenat to explain what was upsetting him, Cenat refused to be specific, instead saying to “go to his page, bro.” He disrespected God himself…he disrespected the entire culture, mocking it, mocking it.
Billboard has reached out to Lil Nas X’s representatives for comment.
Over the past week, Lil Nas X has been posting on his social media, promoting his new single “J CHRIST.” devote his new song about Jesus Christ, “THE MAN WHO HAD THE GREATEST RETURN OF ALL TIME”. In addition to sharing teasers for the new song and video, the singer announced that he was entering his “Christian era“, joked that he would release his gospel music independently and I even shared a fake acceptance letter at conservative Christian college Liberty University, prompting the school to clarify that he had not actually admitted.
But amid his persistent trolling, Lil Nas X also got real with his fans, explaining that the backlash over his use of religious themes in his music reeked of hypocrisy. When commenters lambasted the cover of his new single – which depicts him hoisted on a black cross – as being disrespectful to Christians, the rapper clapped back quickly. “The crazy thing is nowhere in the photo, it’s a mockery of Jesus,” he wrote. “The image of Jesus is used throughout history in popular art around the world. I’m not making fun of that. you just need to stop trying to control a religion that existed here before any of us were born. stfu.
In other job, Lil Nas has responded to claims that he trolls Christians too often. “You judge everything at face value. I have never released a visual without an underlying meaning and you all know that. but since I’m a troll, you see my art as just ‘pissing people off,'” he wrote.
In a subsequent message, he clarified, saying he didn’t appreciate the comparisons he received to artists such as Madonna and Lady Gaga, who also used Christian iconography in their art. “The problem with a lot of gay people is that you think I’m trying to be like Gaga or Madonna when in reality, with all due respect, I don’t know what they did and I do what I want with my career.”
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