But, oh, when a gay man goes down that path-not even lyrically, but artistically in a video-it’s different, right? That’s about as blasphemous as you can get. I mean, when Nas was 12 he went to hell for snuffin’ Jesus.
What did you have to say about Three 6 Mafia? Their name was the mark of the gotdamn beast for Christ’s sake! That didn’t stop anyone from bumping “Still Fly,” did it? To keep it current, Tyler, the Creator’s Goblin album was full of satanic references, wasn’t it? Maybe you attribute it to “growing up.” But you probably didn’t. Oujja” and “Mo’ Murda.” Big L was “rollin’ with Satan, not Jesus Christ” as the “Devil’s Son.” They shouted down the “evil,” “satanic” and “demonic” visuals as Lil Nas X was blocked from heaven due to his sexuality and ends up seducing Satan before murdering him and taking his place as the king of the netherworld.Īnd if this is coming from the 30+ crowd, how dare you? Like you weren’t playing Bone Thugs N Harmony at ignorant levels as they rhymed catchy tunes such as “Mr. To double down on the hypocrisy, an outpouring of people were offended by the imagery in the video. Like R-rated movies that you shouldn’t have been watching but definitely did growing up. “So i hope u are mad, stay mad, feel the same anger you teach us to have towards ourselves.” “i spent my entire teenage years hating myself because of the s–t y’all preached would happen to me because i was gay,” Lil Nas X tweeted on March 27. This is about hypocrisy and being exposed by a young man who truly has done nobody any harm by choosing to be himself. As if that sin is any more significant than say adultery, telling a lie or the various other transgressions that we tend to commit daily but choose to interpret as if one is bigger than the other.īut I digress. The one that goes beyond color lines and castigates those who commit the sin of loving those of the same sex. What Montero Lamar Hill was showing you is that he isn’t afraid of the hell that some of you have already put him in for being gay. Not just as a country, but also as a community. To be Black and gay is something different altogether that we haven’t come to grips with yet. To be Black is one thing that this country is still trying to accept.
“What Montero Lamar Hill was showing you is that he isn’t afraid of the hell that some of you have already put him in for being gay.”Īnd it wasn’t necessarily what was in the video but who was behind those “provocative” and “evil” images. Vary praised the video, calling it monumental “to see a 21-year-old gay man express his sexuality on exactly the same terms - and at the same level of fame, success and media attention - his straight counterparts have enjoyed for decades.And some of you truly showed your whole entire ass by expressing your outrage on social media due to the imagery in the video. so i hope u are mad, stay mad, feel the same anger you teach us to have towards ourselves.ĭespite the haters, Lil Nas X’s “Montero” video has also been met with love and support from the LGBTQ+ community. I spent my entire teenage years hating myself because of the shit y’all preached would happen to me because i was gay. “So I hope u are mad, stay mad, feel the same anger you teach us to have towards ourselves.” “I spent my entire teenage years hating myself because of the shit y’all preached would happen to me because I was gay,” Lil Nas X wrote. “I know we promised to never come out publicly, I know we promised to never be ‘that’ type of gay person, I know we promised to die with the secret, but this will open doors for many other queer people to simply exist,” he wrote.ĭrawing upon that letter, Lil Nas X tweeted at the critics to “stay mad.” When the music video was released, Lil Nas X penned a heartfelt note to his younger self, in which he described his coming out journey.
me sliding down a cgi pole isn’t what’s destroying society. There is a mass shooting every week that our government does nothing to stop. “Me sliding down a CGI pole isn’t what’s destroying society.” “There is a mass shooting every week that our government does nothing to stop,” Lil Nas X wrote. Lil Nas X kept the comebacks coming in response to another since-deleted tweet, which claimed that Lil Nas X’s display of his sexuality is “destroying society.” i am not gonna spend my entire career trying to cater to your children. i made the decision to create the music video.