Nelly Melts Down Over Criticism of Trump Inauguration Gig

Nelly has let loose his anger at being criticized for performing at President Donald Trump’s January inauguration festivities.

The rapper fired back during an appearance on Hot 97’s “Ebro In The Morning” podcast with his wife, Ashanti, after being described as a Trump supporter.  

“See, this is what I’m saying. Where did you get pro-Donald? What you had was respect for office,” he said. “And it’s great how people spin narratives to things that I think best fit whatever they’re against. You know what I’m saying? Instead of giving a brother the exact fundamental of what he did, what he said. Nobody’s doing that anymore.”

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He later lashed out in the comments section of a Shade Room Instagram post that brought up his podcast comments, and attacked former Vice President Kamala Harris, by accusing the Democrat of “locking up Black men.”

In addition to questioning Harris’ record as California attorney general, the “Hot in Herre” rapper threw shade at her for having a white husband, attorney Doug Emhoff. 

Nelly slammed people for “dumping on Black men married to Black women” — like himself and Snoop Dogg — who also performed at one of Trump’s inaugural balls. 

“Me and Snoop do more in the community and have been doing for over 20+ years against any of you that are just on here talking trash and have no stats to back up what you mean to the community…

“from the Black families that we employ to the Black children that we help every day and all year through our nonprofits, whether we’re sending kids to schools on scholarships to HBCU or helping young Black boys in la ‘gang central’ with his junior football programs which many players have went on to go to the NFL and live their dreams…”

He then boasted that he and Snoop are “Black Men” married to beautiful Black women with Black children … and should be inspiring to most but that some of y’all have a problem with because the “prosecutor who has probably locked up more Black men that we’ve helped [a] woman of color with the white husband and white kids.”

Nelly, who said he grew up in a military family, insisted that he didn’t campaign for anyone, nor advocate for a candidate.

“I respect and love our country from top to bottom good and bad… and I am very aware that it’s a lot of things in this country that we need to work on — the right is too far right and the left is too far left,” he said.

He concluded that should any president call upon him, “it would be an honor…nothing to do with money.”

Countless Instagram users replied to his lengthy comment and many of those reactions were negative.  

“You endorsed bigotry and nationalism whether you like it or not,” one person wrote.

“Your participation was the endorsement sir. Let’s stop acting so dense like we don’t understand the difference between stated and implied,” another person wrote.

“You can’t have respect for the office if the person in the office doesn’t respect it,” someone else chimed in.

“Why bring Kamala into it tho. That wasn’t necessary at all smh,” another person wrote.

Listen to Nelly’s podcast remarks at the 11:18 mark in the video above.