Not The Jesus Gospel: More Outrage Over BET Award To Tems

An outrage has been sparked on social media after singer, Temilade Openiyi’ popularly called Tems, won the Best Gospel/Inspirational award at the just-concluded 2024 Black Entertainment Television (BET), Awards.

According to reports, Tems’ ‘Me & U’ beat other gospel stars such as Kirk Franklin, CeCe Winans, Maverick City Music, and others to land the Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational prize held at the Peacock Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles on Monday.

The award of the Best Gospel song award to Tems came as a shocker for netizens across social media because the artiste is mostly associated with secular music.

GWG.ng observed that the footage from ‘Me and You’, revealed sexually provocative dressing and dancing, raising more questions as to what really qualified the song to be classified as a gospel song as there is no trace of ‘Jesus’ which is at the centre of the Christian faith.

A review posted by controversial social media influencer, Daniel Rhega, has since sparked reactions on X and Facebook.

He tweeted, “Tems winning a gospel award is a møckery to the Christian community.”

See some reactions below:

James De Great asked, “My question is how long has she been in gospel artist taking of winning an awards, IKE GWURU.”

Samson Keke said, “Yea it’s really an insult.Infact all this award shows are just insulting. No harsh feelings.”

@Macy_Macy questioned, “Which gospel song does she even have?? Dem dey sing Tems for una church?? What kind of awards do they give these days?? It’s surprising tbh!”

@pascaliito asked, “To show the award has no relevance They give who they want to give What is the gospel song she sang exactly?”

@KayMurphy01 reacted, “The question to be asked is that ” Is Tems a Gospel singer”?”

STREET MOTIVATION reacted, “I still con dey wonder if the song na gospel and watin e dey inspire?, Only Me & U wey b love song dem probably chk it up in a wrong Dico.”

@flyniggabur said, “The thing sef confuse me too.”

@Iamkolo asked a pertinent question, “But what is a gospel artiste doing in BET awards?”

@2wenty24 commented, “This is a system…they know the gospel they talking about..it’s clearly not about Jesus. Her “only me and you” video have you interpreted it? She spread their kind of gospel there.”

I’m terror to your adversaries reacted, “It’s like they just look for a category and fix her name since she didn’t win the categories she suppose to be in… Oh well the church is always welcoming, we don’t discriminate, even if it’s Rick Ross they give best gospel artiste award.”

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