Lil Nas X Still Pissed Off About BET Awards, As Demonstrated In Social Media Posts – Update
deadline.comUPDATE: Lil Nas X continued his BET jihad today, releasing the artwork for his new single, “Late to Da Party.” The art depicts him urinating on a BET Award that’s already soaking in bodily fluid in a toilet.He added insult to the injury with a minute-long “Star Wars”-esque text crawl that addressed how BET “betrayed” him.
He was snubbed by the 2022 BET Awards, which air this Sunday. .“Thank you bet awards. an outstanding zero nominations again,” he wrote in a thread of now-deleted tweets, according to Billboard, after the nominations were announced. “black excellence!” he sarcastically added.EARLIER: Lil Nas X went after BET last week with a social media post criticizing the channel’s BET Awards nominations, a list he was left off of.
The rapper later deleted the posts. But today he made up for lost time — and then some — with a string of videos criticizing the network and its annual awards show.In a clip posted to social media today, Lil Nas is seen lip-syncing to a catchy unreleased snippet from a song called “Late To The Party,” which opens with him repeating the phrase “F*** BET.” He then references his Top-10 charting singles last year: “I put like three up in the Top Ten/And I don’t need nobody.” The clip already has close to a million views on Twitter alone.FUCK BET!
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