John Cooper Calls Lil Nas X to Repentance After Rapper Releases ‘J Christ’ Video

On Friday (Jan. 12), Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Nas X followed through with his promise to release his controversial new song and video titled “J Christ.”

Ahead of dropping his new single, the “Satan Shoes” creator marketed his release by telling his fans that he was entering his “Christian era” and even posted a fake letter from Liberty University congratulating him on being accepted to study “Christian Leadership and Biblical Studies” at the university.

The outspoken gay rapper, who slid down a stripper pole from heaven into hell to give the devil a lap dance in his 2021 “Montero” music video, caused controversy amongst Christians earlier this week after he shared his new single’s cover art, which depicted him hanging on a cross like Jesus.

Worship leader Sean Feucht called the image “blasphemous” and said, “He would never mock, to this degree, another religion. Why? Because they would not tolerate it.”

Even the parent company to Lil Nas X’s Columbia Records label, Sony Music Entertainment, joined in on the blasphemous marketing scheme by launching a website titled “Save Nas.” The website includes Satanic imagery and pictures of the rapper giving Satan a lap dance. It asks questions such as whether or not Lil Nas X is “possessed by a gay demon” and suggests that the rapper’s logo is the image of “a man’s butt” as a homosexual reference.

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“J Christ,” the video that Lil Nas X both wrote and directed, has received over 1.7 million views less than 24 hours after it was released on YouTube. In it, he walks around heaven portraying himself as a savior-like figure, wearing women’s clothing and a gold-plated necklace that says “sexy.” He also can be seen welcoming celebrity look-alikes representing people such as Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and Taylor Swift, through the gates of heaven.

The video shows the rapper crossing up Satan, who is wearing a pair of Lil Nas X’s “Satan Shoes,” and dunking on him in a one-on-one basketball game. Viewers see the rapper cheering in a woman’s cheerleading outfit, hanging on a cross wearing tasseled go-go boots with a crown on thorns on his head, and sheering sheep. He also portrays a Noah-like character saving animals from a global flood in an ark with his emblem on it.

The “J Christ” video ends by flashing the text from 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”