The openly liberal musician Janelle Monáe condemned the Nelly rapper for acting at the opening festivities of President Donald Trump last month, arguing that he now looks like “a silly mother.”
On Sunday night, Monáe made a version of Nelly’s successful song “Hot in Herre” at a later Grammys party. However, he added his own turn, with an improvised and expletive riff, shouting, “F — You, Nelly”, and accusing the original singer of having “exhausted.”
“I used to like Nelly, but then it went to act for Donald Trump,” he said, he said: “I care about women, I care about Hispanics …”
Monáe, a Grammy -nominated artist who had his great rest with Diddy, then added: “Nelly, you exhausted, I used to think that you were great, but now you see yourself like a silly mother.”
Nelly defends the performance at Trump’s inauguration, says “It’s an honor”
Recording artists Sean “P. Diddy” combs (L) and Janelle Monae attend the second annual essence event “Black Women in Music” at the Playhouse Hollywood on February 9, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. ((Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty images)))
Nelly defended his performance at the inauguration, and told Fox News Digital in January: “It was an honor to have acted for the highest office in the biggest nation. Now we look for the president to take a step forward, serve and get up to all “
The rapper, along with other artists, including Jason Aldean and Billy Ray Cyrus, acted in the Liberty Ball after the inauguration. Before his performance, Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Irral Haynes Jr., attended the commander in chief.
A source said throughout the night that Nelly took photos with military officers and thanked them for their service. The source had previously revealed to Fox News Digital that the rapper, who was born in a military base, had several family members that served, a feeling indicated in his entry into the stage.
He has also publicly declared that he did the performance not for money, but out of respect for the presidency’s institution.
“I am not doing this for money. I am doing this because it is an honor. I respect the office,” said St. Louis’s native to his rapper, Willie D. “does not matter who is in office. In the same way that our Men and women, our brothers and sisters who protect this country have to go to war and have to put their lives on the line for whom (it is) in office. “
Fox News Digital contacted Nelly to comment.
The American rapper Nelly, born Cornell Iraral Haynes Jr., acts during the last day of exterior land on Halloween in San Francisco, California, on Sunday, October 31, 2021. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle through Getty Images)
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“Then, if they can put their lives on the line for those who (be) in office, I can act for those who (be) in office,” he added.
Snoop Dogg also faced a violent reaction to act in the Crypto Ball at the Trump opening, a notable change of their previous position by condemning artists who could act for Trump in 2017.
The artist faced a generalized reaction, from users of social networks to the hosts of “The View”, but shrugged shoulders of the reaction.
“It’s Sunday, I got the Gospel in my heart,” he said in the video clip published on Instagram. “For all the hatred, I will respond with love, I love too much. Do your life well, stop worrying about mine. I’m fine. I’m together. Still a black man. Still 100% black. Everything until you get out or you Caigas “.
Janelle Monáe attends the eleventh Annual Sistahs of Alfre Woodard Sistahs presented by Morgan Stanley with Absolut Elyx on February 5, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo of Amsman/Getty Images for Morgan Stanley/Alfre Woodard)
Monáe, who also starred in films such as hidden figures and glass onion, has shared a incendiary rhetoric about those that are associated with Trump before.
In 2020, she wrote In a screen capture obtained by Pop Crave, “F — Donald Tromp (sic) and each American citizen, celebrity, white woman, black man, etc. who supported him Burnnnnnnnnnnnnnn”.
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Julius Young and Caroline Thayer of Fox News contributed to this report.
