A sure “Scorching in Herre” rapper has joined different in style hip-hop and R&B acts performing for President-elect Trump’s inauguration, and the web is not happy about it. The inauguration is simply hours away, and Nelly joins the likes of Snoop Dogg, Soulja Boy and extra who’ve are set to carry out for the President-Elect’s numerous inaugural balls and ceremonies.
As CBS Information confirmed, the “Nation Grammar” rapper will certainly take to the stage on Monday, disappointing a big portion of his fanbase and resulting in some intense chatter on-line. The backlash got here so swiftly, actually, that the rapper discovered himself defending the choice to carry out whereas on YouTube Dwell, saying feedback that appeared to alienate a portion of his fanbase someway much more.
Within the video, Nelly ranted on about why he’s performing, saying, “This isn’t a marketing campaign, this isn’t the RNC,” insisting that as a result of President-Elect Trump received the election, that is an “honor.”
“I’m not doing this for cash, I’m doing this as a result of it’s an honor,” he defined. “I respect the workplace. It don’t matter who’s in workplace. The identical means our brothers and sisters go to conflict to place their life on the road for whoever is in workplace. 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 additionally stated that he’s “clueless on numerous issues when it will get all the way down to it.” Naturally, this try at a protection didn’t sit properly with of us on-line, solely including much more gasoline to the backlash the rapper was already going through.
“Nelly did it for the cash,” one consumer wrote on X, previously often called Twitter. “There is no such thing as a amount of cash I’d settle for to carry out for a convicted felon, racist and rapist.”
One other consumer shared related sentiments, writing, “Not Nelly evaluating serving within the army to performing on the inauguration. This clown twisting himself right into a pretzel with this clarification. You bought out for a test simply admit it!! WTF.”
The information of Nelly’s efficiency got here on the heels of each Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross being introduced as entertainers for the first-ever “Crypto Ball” that was held on Friday night time, which as we reported final week, additionally despatched the web right into a frenzy.
For some followers, they nearly “anticipated” the performances from Rick Ross and Soulja Boy, however Snoop and Nelly had been surprises. “Saying f-ck you to the black neighborhood by publicly supporting a person that makes it clear he don’t like us nor care about us is insane,” one consumer wrote.
As one consumer on X, previously often called Twitter, wrote, “Soooo Snoop and Nelly stated something for a dolla huh?”
Soulja Boy additionally defended his efficiency, taking to Instagram Dwell with a significantly extra intense response to the backlash than Nelly. Saying that they “paid him a bag,” he stated. “Obama ain’t by no means put no cash in my f**king pockets, n***a. Kamala ain’t by no means put no cash in my f**king pockets, n***a. Trump put cash in my pockets, n***a.”
Clearly, as we enter a brand new period with a second Trump administration, seeing how numerous right-leaning acts within the leisure business reply will probably be very telling. Simply how a lot the assist of the President-elect will have an effect on these artists’ careers, each financially and by way of their legacies, stays unseen.