Lil Nas X Enlists Taylor Swift and Kanye West Lookalikes for J CHRIST Music Vide
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00:00 ♪ Which way that we going, hmm, this way ♪
00:03 ♪ Took him to the telly and I told him it's a dizzy ♪
00:06 ♪ Turn up baby, we gon' have to check out at like six, ay ♪
00:09 ♪ Really it's eight, it's eight ♪
00:10 ♪ But you're Uber on a whizzy ♪
00:12 Lil Nas X resurrects himself as Jesus Christ.
00:16 That was the whole vibe, yeah.
00:18 The rapper dropped the music video
00:19 for his new single, "J Christ,"
00:21 where he takes fans into his version of heaven.
00:24 ♪ Bust down chain, that was 30 beats ♪
00:27 ♪ Bust down wrist, that's my bust down 30 inch ♪
00:30 The visual, which Lil Nas X directed,
00:33 starts out with celeb lookalikes
00:35 entering the pearly gates.
00:37 There's Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Mariah Carey,
00:40 Kanye West, Oprah Winfrey, and Barack Obama.
00:44 ♪ Let 'em slide, yeah ♪
00:45 ♪ That shit wasn't quiet, yeah ♪
00:46 ♪ Now I'm on the ride, yeah ♪
00:48 ♪ I'm finna take it high, yeah ♪
00:49 It's amazing.
00:51 The video also includes biblical references,
00:53 including Noah's Ark, or in this case, Nas Ark?
00:57 ♪ Is he under something, only I know ♪
01:00 ♪ Is he 'bout to hit a window, I know ♪
01:04 At one point, an angel-like Lil Nas X
01:06 plays one-on-one basketball with a demon.
01:09 ♪ You know that I'm ready for everything ♪
01:12 ♪ You know I play the side of chaos ♪
01:17 ♪ Is he under something, only I know ♪
01:20 J Christ marks the beginning of Lil Nas' latest era.
01:24 He dropped his album "Montero" back in 2021.
01:27 ♪ Call me by your name ♪
01:30 ♪ Tell me you'll let me in private ♪
01:33 I'm like in a constant state of, you know,
01:36 realization and like, just like life in general
01:39 and how everything is happening for me
01:41 and just, and then, you know, just grateful overall.
01:45 Now, it wouldn't be a Lil Nas release
01:48 without some controversy.
01:50 Just days before J Christ dropped,
01:52 he shared this alleged acceptance letter
01:54 to Liberty University,
01:56 a private Christian college in Virginia.
01:58 The rapper wrote alongside it,
02:00 "I know some of y'all hate me right now,
02:02 "but I want y'all to know I'm literally about
02:04 "to go to college for biblical studies in the fall.
02:06 "Not everything is a troll.
02:08 "Anyways, I'm a student again, let's go."
02:11 I feel like the world is definitely trying its best
02:13 to change in many ways, I'll say that.
02:16 But many fans quickly questioned the validity of it,
02:19 and they were right,
02:20 as the university denied Lil Nas being enrolled.
02:23 One minute everybody loves you,
02:24 the next moment they're like,
02:25 "You're the worst person on planet,"
02:26 then they're like, "We love you again."
02:28 You know, it takes a lot of mental strength
02:30 a lot of the times.
02:31 You know, it definitely is ups and downs.
02:34 I spend a lot of time in each one of those.
02:37 While Lil Nas X might not be going to college,
02:40 he might be teasing more music ahead.
02:43 He wrote that J Christ is,
02:44 "dedicated to the man who had the greatest comeback
02:47 "of all time."
02:48 ♪ Is he 'bout to give 'em something very, very raw ♪
02:52 ♪ Is he 'bout to hit 'em with the, yeah, you know ♪
02:55 ♪ Which way that we going, hmm ♪
02:57 ♪ This way ♪
02:58 ♪ Took 'em to the telling and I told 'em ♪