{"id":127612,"date":"2025-01-19T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/19\/nelly-set-to-perform-at-donald-trumps-inaugural-ball\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T15:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T20:10:17","slug":"nelly-set-to-perform-at-donald-trumps-inaugural-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/01\/19\/nelly-set-to-perform-at-donald-trumps-inaugural-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelly Set to Perform at Donald Trump\u2019s Inaugural\u00a0Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nelly<\/a> will be performing at president-elect Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural ball on Monday (Jan. 20), an inside source has confirmed to Billboard<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 50-year-old \u201cHot in Herre\u201d rapper joins a lineup of previously announced<\/a> inauguration performers that includes Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock, Village People, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jason Aldean, Rascal Flatts, Parker McCollum, Lee Greenwood and Gavin DeGraw.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn an interview on Willie D Live<\/a>, posted to YouTube on Saturday (Jan. 18), Nelly explained the reasons behind his decision to perform. He said in part, \u201cI apologize. I didn\u2019t know that I had to agree with your political choices, and I thought it was the things that you do not the things that you say should be done if you follow what I do. This shouldn\u2019t even be an argument. He\u2019s the president. He won. This isn\u2019t a campaign. This isn\u2019t the RNC. I\u2019m not on the political campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNelly went on to add, \u201cI\u2019m not doing this for money. I\u2019m doing this because it\u2019s an honor. I respect the office. It don\u2019t matter who is in office, the same way that our men and women, our brothers and sisters who protect this country, have to go to war and have to put their life on the line for whoever\u2019s in office. So if they can put their life on the line for whoever in office, I can damn sure perform for whoever \u2026 Nobody\u2019s allowed to change, right? \u2026 If my past was once going to prevent me from winning today, I wouldn\u2019t be here. I\u2019m not saying that that he ain\u2019t got some fucked up ways. That\u2019s not what I\u2019m saying at all. That\u2019s why I\u2019m not telling you who to vote for. But what I\u2019m saying is that he\u2019s the president of the United States\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring the interview, Nelly also addressed whether he was invited to participate in the Kamala Harris campaign. The rapper said he wasn\u2019t invited, noting, \u201cI didn\u2019t get none of that 1.5 to try to help somebody get voted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNelly isn\u2019t the only rapper to participate in Trump\u2019s inauguration festivities. Earlier this weekend, it was widely reported that Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross and Soulja Boy\u00a0performed<\/a> at the president-elect\u2019s Crypto Ball pre-inaugural soiree in Washington, D.C., at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Friday\u00a0(Jan. 17).<\/p>\n

\n\tSnoop and his fellow rappers faced backlash for their performance at the event. In the comments section of a video from the show shared on the Shade Room\u2019s Instagram, users criticized the artists for their participation. \u201cThis is culturally embarrassing and disrespectful as hell,\u201d one commenter wrote<\/a>. Another added<\/a>, \u201cNot a check in the world is worth selling my soul to the Devil\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFormer CNN anchor Don Lemon also covered the performance<\/a> during his livestream, Lemon LIVE at 5<\/em>, questioning whether Snoop and the artists were \u201csellouts\u201d or \u201cgrifters who only care about a dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSnoop hadn\u2019t publicly addressed the backlash at press time, but he did share an Instagram Story<\/a> featuring himself and Ross at the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nelly will be performing at president-elect Donald Trump\u2019s inaugural ball on Monday (Jan. 20), an inside source has confirmed to Billboard. The 50-year-old \u201cHot in Herre\u201d rapper joins a lineup of previously announced inauguration performers that includes Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock, Village People, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jason Aldean, Rascal Flatts, Parker McCollum, Lee Greenwood and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}