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LIL NAS X ADDRS HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTS ABOUT “INDTRY BABY” VIO: ‘Y’ALL HATE GAY PEOPLE’
Let’s brg people home & let’s fight for eedom and equaly.”The highly anticipated release of “Indtry Baby” shortly after the Grammy wner put out “Montero” and “Sun Go Down” — the first two sgl off his forthg but stud album, which is due “soon” acrdg to s Marvel-spired trailer.Per ual, Lil Nas X has spent the hours leadg up to and followg the premiere of “Indtry Baby” amplifyg his funnit fans and expertly shuttg down his haters on social media.“[I] lerally went to hell and twerked on satan but gay prison is where you draw the le ?!” he rpond to someone who argued that “lil nas x is fely dog too much now.”“[S]ayg this advance so y’all won’t blame me,” he tweeted earlier this week.
As wh all recent X releas, however, the new track (and s Christian Brler-directed vio) has also been met wh a phony of homophobic those engaged the homophobia this time around is Boyce Watks, an thor and mentator who prevly ma headl after sharg homophobic ments rponse to the lnch of the seri Empire. In a tweet shared Sunday, Watks said X “isn’t fightg for gay rights” and further amplified the homophobic argument that children simply watchg a gay man make art is somehow unhealthy to them.
“Beg gay is one thg, but beg a super sprear is another. In rponse, X—who’s been tasked wh alg wh a slew of siarly homophobic ments reactn to his 2021 n of top-tier vios—noted the herent hypocrisy of Watks’ statement. “Y’all hate gay ppl and don’t hi , ” he verage started to stack up surroundg his rponse to Watks’ homophobic ments, X was quick to pot out an example of how not to ame the larger story, as homophobia is not synonymo wh mere “cricism.