Outspokenly liberal musician Janelle Monáe condemned rapper Nelly for acting at President Donald Trump’s inauguration festivities final month, arguing he now appears like “a motherf—ing idiot.”
On Sunday night time, Monáe did a rendition of Nelly’s hit track “Scorching in Herre” at a Grammys afterparty. She added her personal spin, nonetheless, with an improvised, expletive-laced riff, shouting, “F— you, Nelly,” and accusing the unique singer of getting “offered out.”
“I used to love Nelly, however then he went to carry out for Donald Trump,” she stated, later declaring, “I care about ladies, I care about Hispanics…”
Monáe, a Grammy-nominated artist who received her large break with Diddy, later added, “Nelly, you offered out, I used to assume you was cool, however now you seem like a mom f—ing idiot.”
NELLY DEFENDS PERFORMING AT TRUMP’S INAUGURATION, SAYS ‘IT’S AN HONOR’
Recording artists Sean “P. Diddy” Combs (L) and Janelle Monae attend the second annual Essence “Black Girls in Music” occasion on the Playhouse Hollywood on February 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. ((Photograph by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Pictures))
Nelly defended his efficiency on the inauguration, telling Fox Information Digital in January, “It was an honor to have carried out for the best workplace within the biggest nation. Now we glance to the president to step up, serve, and carry us all.”
The rapper, together with different artists, together with Jason Aldean and Billy Ray Cyrus, carried out on the Liberty Ball following the inauguration. Forward of his efficiency, Nelly, whose actual identify is Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., attended the Commander In Chief Ball.
A supply stated all through the night that Nelly took pictures with army officers and thanked them for his or her service. The supply had beforehand disclosed to Fox Information Digital that the rapper, who was born on a army base, had a number of members of the family who served, a sentiment famous in his entrance on stage.
He has additionally declared publicly that he did the efficiency not for the cash, however out of respect for the establishment of the presidency.
“I’m not doing this for cash. I’m doing this ‘trigger it’s an honor. I respect the workplace,” the St. Louis native advised fellow rapper, Willie D. “It don’t matter who’s in workplace. The identical approach that our women and men, our brothers and sisters who shield this nation, must go to struggle and must put their life on the road for whoever [is] in workplace.”
Fox Information Digital reached out to Nelly for remark.
American rapper Nelly, born Cornell Iral Haynes Jr., performs through the ultimate day of Exterior Lands on Halloween in San Francisco, Calif. on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle by way of Getty Pictures)
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“So, if they will put their life on the road for whoever [is] in workplace, I can rattling certain carry out for whoever [is] in workplace,” he added.
Snoop Dogg additionally confronted backlash for performing on the Crypto Ball at Trump’s inauguration, a outstanding change from his earlier stance condemning artists who may carry out for Trump in 2017.
The artist confronted widespread backlash starting from social media customers to hosts of “The View,” however shrugged off the backlash.
“It’s Sunday, I received gospel in my coronary heart,” he stated within the video clip posted on Instagram. “For all of the hate I’m going to reply with love, I like an excessive amount of. Get your life proper, cease worrying about mine. I’m cool. I’m collectively. Nonetheless a Black man. Nonetheless 100% Black. All out ’til you ball out or ’til you fall out.”
Janelle Monáe attends Alfre Woodard’s eleventh Annual Sistahs’ Soirée Offered by Morgan Stanley With Absolut Elyx on February 05, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Amy Sussman/Getty Pictures for Morgan Stanley/Alfre Woodard)
Monáe, who has additionally starred in movies like Hidden Figures and Glass Onion, has shared incendiary rhetoric about those that affiliate with Trump earlier than.
In 2020, she wrote in a screenshot obtained by Pop Crave, “F— Donald Tromp [sic] and each American citizen, movie star, white lady, black man, ETC who supported him burnnnnnnnnnn.”
Fox Information’ Julius Younger and Caroline Thayer contributed to this report.
