Jack Harlow Wears Lil Nas X Shirt on Purple Carpet – Billboard

Jack Harlow is exhibiting his help for Lil Nas X on the 2022 BET Awards crimson carpet.

Over the previous few weeks, Lil Nas X has publicly shared his displeasure with BET after receiving zero nominations for the community’s 2022 awards ceremony — in since-deleted tweets and with a brand new single, “Late to Da Get together.” Harlow, in the meantime, might be acting on the present and is nominated for greatest male hip-hop artist.

On Sunday (June 26), Harlow arrived on the BET Awards sporting a Lil Nas X T-shirt, paired with pants and sneakers by Givenchy.

“wow i actually love this man,” Lil Nas X immediately tweeted as images of Harlow’s crimson carpet model surfaced.

Harlow uploaded a video clip of himself sporting the Lil Nas X tee on the crimson carpet in an Instagram Story.

The pair beforehand collaborated on the hit “Trade Child,” which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 songs chart in October.

“Thanks wager awards. an excellent zero nominations once more,” Lil Nas X had tweeted in early June, regardless of having what he referred to as “3 of the most important songs of final yr & a critically acclaimed album.” He continued, “I simply really feel like black homosexual ppl must combat to be seen on this world and even after we make it to the highest mfs attempt to fake we’re invisible.”

BET responded with a press release on June 7, saying, “We love Lil Nas X. He was nominated for a greatest new artist BET Award in 2020, and we proudly showcased his extraordinary expertise and creativity on the present twice: He carried out ‘Outdated City Highway’ with Billy Ray Cyrus at BET Awards 2019 and his BET Awards 2021 efficiency was a spotlight of our present. Nobody cheered louder that evening than BET.”

“We actually do deeply worth and respect Lil Nas X so we have been caught off guard by the assertion,” BET CEO Scott Mills advised Billboard in an interview printed on Sunday. “We work actually exhausting to be terribly inclusive in all we do when it comes to the awards present and depictions in our movie and TV content material. However the exhausting work we do, we’ve to know that there is likely to be alternatives for enchancment in a few of our practices. So we’re taking a look at our processes to determine any blind spots which may have contributed to any outcomes. We’ll undergo that train as a result of we’re dedicated to creating certain that we’re delicate to any potential for unconscious bias.”