Watch Him Dunk on Devil – Billboard

He’s pole-danced to hell, he’s damaged out of jail and he’s even eloped together with his football-playing boyfriend. Now, Lil Nas X is able to strut his method by the Pearly Gates.

On Friday (Jan. 12), the rapper shared his much-hyped music video for “J CHRIST,” taking the Biblical title to its furthest extent. The clip opens with a collection of celeb lookalikes — starting from Taylor Swift to Kanye West to a moonwalking Michael Jackson — as they climb the stairway to heaven. Upon arrival, they’re greeted on the entrance by a dragged-up Lil Nas X, declaring he’s studying to “stroll up within the membership poppin’ s–t prefer it was Doublemint.”

The video — directed by Lil Nas X himself — then proceeds to point out a collection of callbacks to his hellish video for “Montero (Name Me By Your Identify),” exhibiting the oft-discussed pole to hell and a demonic Lil Nas X stirring a cauldron of legs and arms. Flying again as much as heaven, Lil Nas reunites together with his former flame the Satan, this time in a one-on-one basketball sport the place the rapper soars over his head, dunks the ball, and celebrates with a customized cheerleading routine.

For the rest of the video, followers are handled to a number of Biblical vignettes — Jesus’ crucifixion, Nabal shearing David’s sheep, Moses parting the Pink Sea — earlier than the rapper transforms into Noah, ushering the denizens of Earth onto an enormous ark to outlive the flooding of the world. “Again up out the gravesite/ B—h, I’m again like J Christ,” he declares over a pounding beat. “I’m finna get the gays hype/ I’m finna take it yay excessive.”

As a storm subsides and Nas’ Noah survives, the display declares that that is “Day Zero” of “a brand new starting,” sharing a quote from 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Subsequently, if anybody is in Christ, he’s a brand new creation. The previous has handed away; behold, the brand new has come.”

The “J CHRIST” video comes after Lil Nas X spent a lot of the week selling his single the easiest way he is aware of how — trolling. Whether or not he was posting a pretend acceptance letter to Liberty College or declaring that his new music could be launched independently, the singer made certain that his identify was on everybody’s lips all through the week.

Try the official video for “J CHRIST” beneath: