Rapper Lil Nas X is somewhat apologizing about the backlash surrounding his record and video, “J Christ.”
The record caused quite a stir when he debuted the video, showing himself as Jesus Christ on the cross. Lil Nas has always thrived on shock value but the controversy led to 140,000 of his fans unfollowing him on Instagram. Still, “J Christ” debuted at No. 69 on the Billboard Hot 100 During the most recent episode of “On Purpose with Jay Shetty” podcast, Lil Nas addressed the matter again, saying he was most sorry for the communion scene.
“It turned into this whole thing where it was me trying to dunk on Christians or something, and that was never what it was. I looked at the video with me eating like the communion or whatnot, and I was like ‘Okay, this looks really bad on paper. This thing that I thought was a little jokey fun video,” he told Shetty, adding, “I feel like I’ve apologized to the communion thing on that note. Everything else? I’m not sorry about. I don’t think I did anything wrong. I’ve also been making a lot of gospel music to God and, like, my spiritual side, and I hate that this whole thing gets turned into a ‘mockery,’ which it isn’t.”
The new interview arrives after Nas’s new HBO documentary “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” was released Saturday. The film also examines his relationship with his spirituality, admitting that he “abandoned religion altogether at first.” However, he said that when he began taking music seriously, his faith strengthened, and he once again “felt a presence bigger than me.”
