<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lil Nas X is firing back at author Dr. Boyce Watkins for an inflammatory tweet he made about the rapper and his new music video for the song “Industry Baby.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lil Nas X dropped the record and visual for “Industry Baby” Thursday night. In the video&#8211;which was directed by Lil Nas himself&#8211; Lil Nas X is sentenced to prison behind the Nike Air Max drama related to his song “Montero.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can read more about that <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/mschf-to-recall-lil-nas-xs-satan-shoes-after-reaching-settlement-with-nike-update/">here.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lil Nas X implied through his song and visuals that the ridicule over the controversial “devil shoes” really stems from people’s homophobia of him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The video contained visuals including inmates in pink jail uniforms and a shower scene in which Nas X and his dancers are all naked.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lil Nas X was praised for his marketing genius and for consistently being himself but of course Nas X had his critics and one of the most vocal ones was Dr. Boyce Watkins.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Watkins shared a very critical tweet about Lil Nas X’s video, asserting that he’s marketing “sexual irresponsibility” that’s causing young men to die from AIDS.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“#LilNasX isn’t fighting for gay rights. He’s marketing the sexual irresponsibility that’s causing young men to die from AIDS. Being gay is one thing, but being a super spreader is another. There’s nothing healthy or helpful about that video. Especially for children,” Dr. Boyce Watkins said.</span></p>
<p>In Lil Nas X&#8217;s defense, he warned parents ahead of the video&#8217;s release that it was <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/lil-nas-x-warns-fans-ahead-of-time-that-his-new-song-is-not-for-your-kids/">not appropriate for children.</a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lil Nas X fired back with a tweet, calling Watkins out for the hypocrisy in his statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Ya’ll be silent as hell when n***as dedicate their entire music catalogue to rapping about sleeping with multiple women but when I do anything remotely sexual I’m ‘being sexually irresponsible’ &; ‘causing more men to die from aids’ y’all hate gay ppl and don’t hide it.”</span></p>
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