Possibly — simply perhaps — it seems that mockery and rejection of conventional spiritual and social norms is, the truth is, negatively correlated together with your well being.
Correlation is just not causation, in fact, however the newest unhappy instance of this phenomenon is Montero Lamar Hill — higher identified by his nom de rap, Lil Nas X.
Hill’s songs haven’t simply embraced what the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as soon as charitably known as an “unapologetic take a look at queer love and queer lust.” In doing so, he’s additionally embraced satanic imagery and explicitly denigrated Christianity — similar to giving the satan a lap dance within the video for “Montero (Name Me by Your Title)” or mocking Jesus by presenting himself because the Savior within the track and video for “J Christ.”
Now, in keeping with a number of reviews, the rapper has been arrested and hospitalized after strolling the streets of Los Angeles in his underwear and white cowboy boots, then allegedly charging at police.
TMZ described the video they obtained of him as depicting the “rapper almost bare, and floating aimlessly down Ventura Blvd” within the early hours of the morning.
“Somebody driving previous him recorded Nas, who repeatedly pointed on the digicam and muttered one thing about heading to a celebration — and at one level, he positioned an orange visitors cone on his head.”
When he was within the Studio Metropolis space, police acquired reviews of a unadorned man and the Los Angeles Police Department responded. He was nonetheless strolling in the course of the highway when the LAPD discovered him. Then he allegedly charged on the officers.
He was taken to the hospital and paramedics mentioned that he was affected by a doable overdose on an unknown substance.
As of Friday, his condition was nonetheless unknown, the New York Post reported.
Furthermore, there had been indicators that this was coming.
“Earlier than Thursday’s incident, the singer had shared a sequence of photos on Instagram of his messy home with items of artwork and furnishings scattered all through,” the New York Publish famous.
“And identical to that she’s again. We’ve all waited so lengthy. When dreamworld wanted her probably the most,” he captioned one image.
“OH NO sHES GONE MAD! CRAZY I TELL U!” he mentioned in one other, together with a sequence of emojis.
He’s additionally admitted to “self-medication” with substances after his grandmother’s demise in 2018.
He began “smoking [weed] closely,” a substance which he says made him “extra linked with the universe.”
He introduced that he was gay shortly thereafter in “Montero (Name Me By Your Title).” Written as a letter to his 14-year-old self, the track was imagined to be, he mentioned on social media, a track that might “open doorways for a lot of different queer folks to easily exist.”
That was the identical track through which the rapper is depicted as giving Devil a lap dance.
The video featured him getting kicked out of heaven and right down to hell on a stripper pole, the place he gave the efficiency for the prince of darkness.
“Cocaine and drinkin’ with your pals / You reside in the dead of night, boy, I can not fake / I’m not fazed, solely right here to sin,” the lyrics went.
He additionally launched a pair of “Satan Shoes” together with the one, a restricted run of sneakers with the quantity “666” on them, and even a drop of human blood in them.
If that wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, hearken to the outline of the video for 2024’s “J Christ” from the Los Angeles Times — a scenario even Hill acknowledged he “tousled.”
The 2-time Grammy Award winner debuted the controversial track Friday. Within the accompanying video, he appeared as a satan, an angel and Jesus Christ crucified on a cross earlier than mounting a comeback at a Met Gala-style occasion. He additionally navigates the flooded excessive seas as Noah, citing a verse from Corinthians. There are many big-name doppelgängers getting ready for judgment within the video too, but it surely was Lil Nas X who bought the brunt of brutal discernment in actual life.
Whereas he launched a video saying he was “not essentially” apologizing, he mentioned “I additionally didn’t imply to, like, mock.”
“It was actually me saying, ‘Oh, I’m again. I’m again like Jesus.’ That was the entire thing,” he continued. “I’m not the primary individual to decorate up as Jesus. I’m not the primary rapper… and I gained’t be the final.”
And whereas he wasn’t the primary particular person to allegedly overdose on one thing and get himself arrested for strolling almost nude in Los Angeles (bizarre metropolis, man), it’s important to admit that this sort of dysfunction appears to be based mostly round him actively making anti-moral choices.
Earlier this 12 months, he mentioned in a video that the “previous couple of years have been fairly troublesome for me.”
“I’m simply now, like arriving to this place of feeling confidence in myself and what I’m doing. And I’m making an attempt to ensure I put intention in the direction of my music and my imaginative and prescient and the creativity of all of it,” he mentioned in February.
Nevertheless, he added that he was “flaky” and “far and wide.”
Then in April, he revealed he’d misplaced “management of the suitable aspect” of his face.
“It’s like, what the f***, bro?” he mentioned. “I can’t even snort proper, bro. What the f***. Oh my God, oh my God, bro.”
And now we’ve this. He’s actively mocked not simply each legislation that results in human flourishing, however the Lord and Savior who handed that legislation down, and we’re imagined to act as if the 2 aren’t associated, as a result of that might be loopy.
Our prayers, in fact, are with Mr. Hill. However not simply that he will get higher bodily and mentally. This can be a man that desperately must get higher spiritually, or else — if the previous is any indication — he stands to fulfill a darkish finish.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
