Lil Nas X shares he is becoming a member of Biblical Research programme
Lil Nas X has introduced that he’s going to school to hitch a Biblical Research programme.
The rapper took to his Instagram web page yesterday (January 9) to share a picture of his acceptance letter to Liberty College, a Christian college in Virginia. He shall be becoming a member of the college to participate in a twin focus in Christian Management and Biblical Research, with the course beginning later this yr.
“I do know a few of yall hate me proper now however i would like yall to know im actually about to go to varsity for biblical research within the fall,” he wrote within the caption. “Not every part is a troll! Anyhow IM A STUDENT AGAIN! LETS GOOO.”
The backlash he mentions refers to that regarding his upcoming single ‘J Christ’.
Sharing an announcement for the brand new music earlier this week, Lil Nas X confronted controversy after the art work confirmed him mendacity on a crucifix, with 5 bystanders starting to lift him off the bottom.
“My new single is devoted to the person who had the best comeback of all time,” he wrote within the caption, and he additionally posted an image on X/Twitter, that includes 4 pictures of himself in priest robes with the phrases: “Within the title of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.”
MY NEW SINGLE IS DEDICATED TO THE MAN WHO HAD THE GREATEST COMEBACK OF ALL TIME!
J CHRIST
JANUARY 12, 2024
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BE THERE! pic.twitter.com/JEX6sSTft5— ✟ (@LilNasX) January 8, 2024
New music and visible subsequent week! –
Official artwork dropping quickly. –
🤍 [] pic.twitter.com/gIgdW8rAJR— ✟ (@LilNasX) January 3, 2024
A clip for the song noticed him nailed to a gold cross that immediately transforms right into a mechanical swimsuit full with a halo.
Responding to obvious criticism of the spiritual aesthetic used, the rapper took to social media on Monday (January 8) to disclaim making a “mockery” out of Christianity.
“The loopy factor is nowhere within the image is a mockery of Jesus,” he wrote. “Jesus’s picture is used all through historical past in folks’s artwork everywhere in the world. I’m not making enjoyable of shit,” he added. “Yall simply gotta cease attempting to gatekeep a faith that was right here earlier than any of us have been even born. Stfu.”
‘J Christ’ shall be launched at midnight on 12 January, and is about to reach with his first-ever self-directed video. Pre-order/pre-save the one here.
As highlighted by Billboard, the information that Lil Nas X shall be taking a Biblical Research course at college comes following a collection of more and more ambiguous TikTok posts.
Posted over the previous couple of days, the temporary updates see the artist declare that he was “blackballed” from releasing new music final yr after “selling God to the plenty”. It additionally sees him label the trade as “depraved” and threaten to “expose” other artists.
“Me staying with the police division 24/7 for the subsequent 5 days earlier than i expose the music trade for what they did to me,” he wrote on one submit, sharing a video the place he’s stood with two officers subsequent to a police automobile. “Evil won’t cease what god has deliberate.”
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The criticism Lil Nas X acquired for the art work to his upcoming single doesn’t mark the primary time that he has been criticised for his use of spiritual imagery.
Again in 2021, the musician confronted controversy after selling that he can be promoting promoting 666 pairs of restricted version “Devil Sneakers” – every containing a drop of actual human blood. The sneakers have been supported by the Church of Devil (through The Independent) and led to blended choices on-line. They have been later recalled following a lawsuit from Nike, after being designed with out permission from the sportswear big.
In different Lil Nas X information, the rapper lately responded to Dave Chapelle‘s joke about his 2021 monitor ‘Montero (Name Me By Your Identify)’, as featured on a Netflix particular.