Kirk Franklin speaks on the controversial video of him in Jamaica wearing “hoochie pants” during his performance.
During a recent interview, the award-winning gospel artist spoke about the viral clip and how it received a lot of mixed reactions. He also spoke about the viral video that when around of him seemingly twerking on fellow gospel artist, Jacky Clark Chisholm.
“I had to go to Jamaica last year,” Franklin said. “And I had some shorts on and a tank top, and I got ridiculed.” As the conversation went on, he denied wearing short shorts. “It was just a regular look that I had on. I had some some Travis Scotts on and I was doing a concert.”
He added that the public’s ideation about him and his outfit choices are “fatiguing” and said that “social media gives everybody that microphone.”
“It’s the necessary capital E word [evil] that you know we all are trying to maneuver with because it does a lot of good,” he said while pointing out that some people are weaponizing Christianity.
“Humans, if not surrendered and not accountable, we have capacities some of us to be evil,” Franklin continued. “And so it’s not social media that’s evil, it’s the individuals [whose] hearts are not pure and healed and whole and surrendered that use that as a tool of evil.”
This comes after Kevin Hart joked about the situation while hosting the 2025 BET Awards in which he told the gospel artist not to twerk when he is set to accept the Ultimate Icon Award. “He be trying to blame it on the Lord. The Lord didn’t ask for that,” Hart jokingly said.