Singer Tyrese, who clearly has a lot of time on his hands isn't here for Lil Nas X and his so-called Christian era.
via: Radar Online
Nas X sang about his personal struggles in the 75-second snippet that some critics have found offensive.
“Free me from worry and wanting pity / Free me from all this envy in me / I don’t want these feelings / I don’t want these feelings / I call on angels / Im trying hard to face my pain, yeah / Give me hope when I feel / Give me hope when I feel less,” he belted out.
Many felt his latest track was a stark transition from his devil visuals in the Montero (Call Me By Your Name) music video.
“GOD IS NOT AN ERA. IT’S A LIFESTYLE,” one naysayer commented before Tyrese entered the chat and scolded the Industry Baby performer.
Tyrese left a comment under The Shade Room’s post spotlighting Nas X’s new single. “Y’all gone learn to stop playing with God … God is not to be played with … From shoes with devil signs and devils blood in the [shoe] sole?” he wrote. “We can all change I get it but I feel a way about people making a mockery about Jesus. Do you, life your life .. Do what makes you happy but yall better stop playing with Jesus out here.”
Lil Nas X later fired back at Tyrese and said he was overreacting. “This really crazy cuz all I did was post a song about asking god for hope when you feel hopeless and yall acting like I posted a video of me burning a church down and peeing on a nativity scene.”
The Old Town Road hitmaker took to X, formerly Twitter, with a series of messages amid the public outcry over his change of style. “I am allowed to get on my knees for multiple reasons,” he wrote in one post.
In another, Lil Nas expressed that he feels like “y’all see everything I do as a gimmick.” He continued, “When in reality I’m just an artist expressing myself in different ways. whether I’m a cowboy, gay, satanic, or now christian y’all find a problem! Y’all don’t police nobody else art like mine. Y’all hate me because im fun cute and petite.”
Back in 2021, Tyrese took to his Instagram Stories to vent about how televised entertainment ceremonies have become all about clout-chasing after the MTV Video Music Awards aired, which included a performance by Lil Nas X.
“Everything has become one gigantic ANTIC … Award Shows, social media, and life feels like one gigantic ANTIC,” the Baby Boy actor declared. “I miss the days when popularity was actually based on TALENT …. Hit records and hit movies.”
I know people are looking at what Lil Nas X is doing is playing with God, and trolling, which I feel he's doing more of the latter than the former. LNX has been ridiculed by the mainstream and religious groups, who have told the likes of a LNX that he is a abomination and because he is gay that he's going to hell. Hence why he did the video where he was giving the devil a lap dance.
Most (with no sense of humor) took what he was doing literally, but what the imagery indicated was that he was holding a mirror up to religious hypocrites. I also feel he was in the mindset of, "well, since you all say I'm going to hell for being gay I'm going to twerk in hades and give Satan a lap dance while I'm at it."
As for the song it does sound pretty inspirational, and as an artist, Tyrese should know first hand that there are many sides of an artist that if they feel the need to express it that's what they should be able to do.
I also think that so-called "religious" folks, particularly black people need to stop trying to act like they have ownership over God, or that they were anointed the Lordt's personal spokesperson.
My only thing with LNX is I need for the music to be just as strong and headline-grabbing as the antics, because while he has given us some cute bops, I need for those songs to be as strong as the message (a la what Madonna has given us throughout her career).
His new song may not be an antic, but when the antics have been known to overshadow your message, I can also see why people are coming at LNX the way they are.
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