{"id":338042,"date":"2021-03-28T22:15:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=338042"},"modified":"2021-03-28T22:15:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T02:15:56","slug":"nike-responds-after-lil-nas-x-satan-shoes-spark-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nike-responds-after-lil-nas-x-satan-shoes-spark-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nike Responds After Lil Nas X \u2018Satan Shoes\u2019\u00a0Spark Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnike-responds-after-lil-nas-x-satan-shoes-spark-backlash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=338042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4179.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Raper Lil Nas X sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.61307\/title.lil-nas-x-devilishly-responds-to-satan-shoes-controversy-on-twitter#signup\">backlash<\/a>&nbsp;this weekend over his new so-called \u201cSatan shoes.\u201d The musician designed a pair of Nike sneakers that apparently include a drop of human blood mixed with ink, of which only 666 pairs are available for purchase, staying inline with the satanic theme.<\/p>\n<p>Nike said Sunday, however, that the company has nothing to do with the release or the design of the shoes. The company stopped short of denouncing the Satan-themed kicks, though.<\/p>\n<p>In a Snopes \u201cfact-check,\u201d the left-wing website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/nike-satan-shoes-lil-nas-x\/\">confirmed<\/a> that the shoes are indeed Nike Air Max 97s, adding, \u201cAlthough the shoes are Nikes, a Nike spokesperson told us the company has nothing to do with the creation or sale of the \u2018Satan shoes.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNike did not release nor design these shoes,\u201d a spokesperson for Nike told Snopes via email.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper reportedly worked with the company MSCHF to design the hellish sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted in the report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rapper-lil-nas-x-rolls-out-line-of-bloody-satan-shoes-to-coincide-with-new-song-about-demonic-sex\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, the Lil Nas X, whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill, included satanic imagery on the shoes that is coupled with Nas\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6swmTBVI83k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new music video<\/a>, which depicts the singer giving Satan a lap dance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe so-called \u2018Satan Shoes,\u2019 which are 666 individually numbered pairs of Nike Air Max 97s that were modified by the company MSCHF, will be going for $1,018 beginning March 29,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>The sneakers and new music video sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.61307\/title.lil-nas-x-devilishly-responds-to-satan-shoes-controversy-on-twitter#signup\">backlash<\/a> online and calls for boycotts of Nas\u2019 music and even Nike kicks.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cOld Town Road\u201d singer suggested he was being bullied by the response and wouldn\u2019t revert back to making clean music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made the decision to create the music video,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopdx.com\/news\/id.61307\/title.lil-nas-x-devilishly-responds-to-satan-shoes-controversy-on-twitter#signup\">wrote<\/a> via social media. \u201cI am an adult. [I] am not gonna spend my entire career trying to cater to your children. [T]hat is your job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nas acknowledged in January&nbsp;that his core audience is children, according to an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/01\/05\/953349880\/lil-nas-x-says-children-are-his-core-audience-right-now-and-thats-ok\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a>. \u201cBefore releasing his Satan Shoes, Hill appeared with Elmo on \u2018Sesame Street\u2019 and wrote a children\u2019s book called \u2018C Is For Country,&#8217;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rapper-lil-nas-x-rolls-out-line-of-bloody-satan-shoes-to-coincide-with-new-song-about-demonic-sex\">The&nbsp;Daily Wire<\/a> highlighted Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u2019s Jon Brown detailed the satanic imagery in Nas\u2019 \u201cMontero (Call Me By Your Name)\u201d video:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"28.969144460028\">\n<p><em>Hill\u2019s infernal footwear coincides with the release of the graphic new music video for his new song \u201cMontero (Call Me By Your Name),\u201d&nbsp;which trended at the top of YouTube with more than 25 million views as of Sunday afternoon. <a href=\"http:\/\/holrmagazine.com\/the-powerful-meanings-lil-nas-xs-video-for-montero-cmbyn-holds-for-queer-audiences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Replete with biblical and occult imagery<\/a>, the video depicts Hill being sexually seduced in the Garden of Eden by Satan in serpentine form, after which the camera cuts to the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which is famous for its role in the Book of Genesis and the fall of man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Etched into the tree\u2019s bark is an ancient Greek quote from Plato\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0173%3Atext%3DSym.%3Apage%3D191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Symposium<\/a>\u201d that translates: \u201cNow when our first form had been cut in two, each half in longing for its fellow would come to it again.\u201d The passage is a reference to ancient pagan views of dualism and sexuality, that humans were originally male, female, and androgynous, and that homosexuality is an attempt to recover one\u2019s primal nature.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>After being stoned to death by judgmental figures ostensibly condemning him for his sexuality, Hill then ascends toward an angelic being in heaven before sliding down to hell on a stripper pole. He discovers the devil sitting on his throne encircled with Latin that translates: \u201cThey condemn what they don\u2019t understand.\u201d After giving a lap dance to Satan, who happens to be wearing the expensive Nike shoes he is selling, Hill snaps his neck and assumes his horned crown.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raper Lil Nas X sparked backlash\u00a0this weekend over his new so-called \u201cSatan shoes.\u201d The musician designed a pair of Nike sneakers that apparently include a drop of human blood mixed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311292,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4179.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Nike Responds After Lil Nas X \u2018Satan Shoes\u2019\u00a0Spark Backlash","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4179.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Nike Responds After Lil Nas X \u2018Satan Shoes\u2019\u00a0Spark Backlash","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}