Watch: jackharlow called on 4everBrandy to perform a surprise live debut of the 'First Class' remix at the BETAwards on Sunday.
: “I’m so thankful to Jack because he gave me this great opportunity to be a rapper. I’ve been wanting to rap for forever and everybody was like, ‘Mm, everybody just wants to hear you sing, don’t do rap.’ But I love rap, I love hip-hop, I love all of that.”
For as much as he’s hit with claims of pandering to his black audience, Harlow spent most of his night sharing his platform with black artists. Apart from tapping Lil Wayne and Brandy for his performance, the rapper hit the red carpet sporting a“Wow I really love this man,” Lil Nas X wrote on Twitter ahead of the ceremony. From the beginning of his beef with the network, it was about much more than being shut out of the nominations despite having two of the biggest hits of 2021.
The clash with BET stretches back to Lil Nas X’s debut performance at the awards ceremony last year where he performed “Montero ” and rounded off his set by sharing a kiss with his backup dancer. In their response to Nas’s criticisms this year, the network claimed that “no one cheered louder that night than BET” after the performance.
Another member of his team added: “At some point after [Nas] got offstage, one of the BET producers came up to me and before I could even open my mouth, he looked at me and said, ‘That was really fucked up.’” “Industry Baby” didn’t have a chance to make it onto the BET Awards stage, and Nas sat the ceremony out for obvious reasons, but Harlow made sure his solidarity was known.