In response to Nelly, when he accepted the invitation to carry out throughout President Trump’s Inaugural occasions in January, he was not endorsing Trump or his administration.
Throughout an look this week on Sizzling 97’s “Ebro within the Morning” podcast together with his spouse Ashanti to advertise their model new actuality TV sequence on Peacock, “Nelly & Ashanti: We Belong Collectively,” the 50-year-old rapper addressed the controversy surrounding his Inaugural Liberty Ball efficiency.
When co-host Ebro Darden requested if Nelly was nonetheless on his “pro-Donald Trump stance, the “Little Bit” performer was fast to appropriate him.
“See, that is what I’m saying. The place did you get pro-Donald?” he stated. “What you had was ‘respect for workplace.’”
He added, “And it’s nice how folks spin narratives to issues that I believe greatest match no matter they’re in opposition to. You recognize what I’m saying? As a substitute of giving a brother the precise basic of what he did, what he stated. No person’s doing that anymore.”
Nelly made headlines in January when it was introduced that he would carry out at President Donald Trump’s Liberty Ball. The St. Louis rapper responded to the backlash partly by saying he was doing so as a result of he had “respect” for the workplace.
“I’m not doing this for cash, I’m doing this as a result of it’s an honor. I respect the workplace. It doesn’t matter who’s in workplace,” he stated then. “The identical method that our women and men, our brothers and sisters who defend this nation, need to go to warfare and need to put their life on the road for whoever in workplace. So if they will put their life on the road for whoever in workplace, I can rattling certain carry out.”
Whereas on “Ebro within the Morning,” he echoed those self same sentiments and additional defended the transfer by noting that he hasn’t endorsed a president ever. He identified that the yr earlier than, he carried out at an occasion with Kamala Harris and seen that it didn’t increase any eyebrows.
“At the moment, no one ever introduced it up,” he stated.
When one other host famous that it wouldn’t have been clickbait, Nelly agreed and identified that Darden’s method of asking him the query was even clickbait-y.
“It’s like ‘yo Nelly, your political stance’ … I don’t assume I stated that. I believe I stated I’ve respect for the workplace and whoever is in workplace,” he recalled.
“It was really an honor, as a result of ain’t nan different president ever requested me to do something,” he continued. “It doesn’t imply you agree with how that president… I by no means endorsed any president. I’ve by no means executed {that a} day in my life. What I did say is that I’m a navy brat. I like our women and men that service this nation. I’ve executed issues throughout this nation. I’ve entertained the troops. No person brings that up. I’ve stayed man, you realize, a dedication in my neighborhood, and I’ve a stupendous black household.”
