Without clarity, R&B singer Eric Benét said the beloved city of Jazz made him feel like an enslaved man who gained freedom on TikTok on July 5, potentially about his performance at the Essence Festival 2024.

 “Not to make light of a devastating history of my people…” Benét said. “But something about walking around in New Orleans makes me feel like a fr……a free slave. I am free,”

Some fans saw where Benét was coming from.

 “Boy, he ain’t lie. It’s part of GA that make me feel like that too…even worse when you pass a plantation property that still has old slave quarters on it. And they are like, ‘Why is everything about race!! Slavery was 400 years ago!’ Oh yeah, knock that s*** down off your property, including that plantation home.” @jaylittlelisa said.

“I get what he’s saying….then I feel a strong presence of voodoo, witchcraft, cemeteries and ghosts everywhere,” @anais_hayden said.

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