Kirk Franklin’s Response To Viral Video of Him Grinding on Gospel Singer Is Atrocious
Gospel recording artist Kirk Franklin has done a ‘year in review’ of his performances in 2024, directly responding to and offering his appraisals of the highs, lows, and all manner of controversies he was embroiled in over the last 12 months.
In particular, he responds to the instance he was seen grinding on one of the singers at a gospel singing event, saying that he should have kept it off stage and instead relegated it to the backstage.
His justification begs the question, however, of why he’s grinding on women and having “silly” “fun” with them in this way backstage at all.
“I’m gonna keep this real and I’m gonna keep it 100 with y’all. Sometimes I just play too much. Sometimes I just be doing too much.
I do, I play too much, I’m friends with these people, we have fun backstage, and I don’t know how to separate the backstage Kirk from onstage Kirk. Like I am who I am, whatever I am, these my peoples, and we act silly backstage and have fun, and I don’t know how to turn that off, and I gotta learn it, because I know that it can be offensive to some people.
But sometimes I just play too much, and in that moment, I was playing too much. I shouldn’t have been playing out there in front of y’all. I should have kept that to myself and have fun with them the way I do when we be acting a fool.
But sometimes I get on my own nerve. And when I was doing it, it seemed fun. But when I saw the clip, yeah, it’s too much.
Franklin also addresses the choice of clothing he wore while doing a show in Jamaica, offering a much better response by admitting:
I am aware now that my choice of attire, which as a team we thought was going to be fine being outside in the weather, was going to be something that would not come across as disrespectful.
And since I’ve spent most of my career dancing and moving around and jumping on stage, that I didn’t know that I would ever do anything that would ever offend anyone in any community, but it did. And because it did, I sincerely apologize.
I sincerely apologize because I never want to get to a place that I can’t learn, that I can’t learn what I need to do better, what I can do different to make sure that as I grow as a man, grow physically or in any aspect, that I’m always being humble enough and submissive enough to hear people and their concerns about anything being bigger than the message of Jesus.
Because it doesn’t matter what my goal and intent is, if I’m louder than the message of Jesus, then I failed.
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